# 1.1 Player Motivations

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="✓ TASK" %}
Just as people like different types of books or movies, people like different types of video games. If you're going to design a video game, you'll need to know more about what motivates people to play certain games.

You'll start by taking a survey to determine your own Gamer Motivation Profile. Later in the project, your team will decide which gaming motivations to target for its game concept.

[Quantic Foundry](http://quanticfoundry.com/) is a game analytics consulting company that has gathered data from over 400,000 video game players to construct a scientific model that describes different types of gaming motivations.

This model identified 12 gaming motivations that form into 6 groups. For example, *Challenge* and *Strategy* are gaming motivations that belong to the *Mastery* group.

![](/files/-LaGRVOD_d7FfThi4oa1)

1. [Take the online survey](https://apps.quanticfoundry.com/surveys/start/gamerprofile/) to determine your Gamer Motivation Profile. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete.
2. Record your results in [this assignment template](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QtWFyRvM4sgI5W1iHRpx-60IMaf7P4drH122iJjbMoc).
3. Discuss and compare your results with others in the class.

{% hint style="info" %}
**MAKE A COPY:**  To use a template, be sure you're logged in to your Google Account. From the template's **File** menu, select **Make a copy**. Save the copy to a folder in your Google Drive. You can now modify it.
{% endhint %}

### **❏ Deliverable**

Submit your Gamer Motivation Profile results
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="★ RUBRIC" %}

| **✓- Below Standard** | **✓ Meets Standard** | **✓+ Exceeds Standard** |
| --------------------- | -------------------- | ----------------------- |
| Description           | Description          | Description             |
| {% endtab %}          |                      |                         |
| {% endtabs %}         |                      |                         |


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.idew.org/project-video-game/project-instructions/1-discover-and-define-problem/1.1-player-motivations.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.