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Fanboys, competers, escapists and time-killers: a typology based on gamers' motivations for playing video games

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 349 archive
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts table of contents

Athens, Greece

SESSION: Digital entertainment through games table of contents

Pages 46-50

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-248-1

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Dimitri Schuurman	MICT-IBBT Ghent University, Gent - Belgium
Katrien De Moor	MICT-IBBT Ghent University, Gent - Belgium
Lieven De Marez	MICT-IBBT Ghent University, Gent - Belgium
Jan Van Looy	MICT-IBBT Ghent University, Gent - Belgium

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, the different general motivations of gamers for playing video games are explored. Surprisingly, to date little research has been devoted to the characterization of the gamer, based on general game motivations. By means of an online survey, we questioned 2985 Flemish gamers on 11 general game motivations. K-means clustering was used to distinguish four distinctive gamer profiles: the overall convinced gamer, the convinced competitive gamer, the escapist gamer and the pass-time gamer.

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