Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Motivation During Play
In class, we spoke of play motivations related to achievement, combat, completionism, and competition, and some associated information behaviors. Your task in this blog post is to document your information behaviors/practices related to these play motivations. Think about how/why you are motivated to achieve things during play, compete against others, fight, solve problems, or collect things. Describe these behaviors (including any non-human entities that play a role in them), and how they link to your personal achievement motivations.
I think the main motivation for me to have achievements while playing Minecraft is to show others that I'm actually getting better at this game. From time to time I will get achievements for even just being able to build a house or something...and I cherish those achievements even when they are small ones. In the beginning, I used to get much more achievements than I do playing the game now. The server also seems a lot quieter. Not a lot of players are on this server so the PvP achievements are harder to get.
I think the main motivation for me to have achievements while playing Minecraft is to show others that I'm actually getting better at this game. From time to time I will get achievements for even just being able to build a house or something...and I cherish those achievements even when they are small ones. In the beginning, I used to get much more achievements than I do playing the game now. The server also seems a lot quieter. Not a lot of players are on this server so the PvP achievements are harder to get.
In the beginning however, I remember getting something like this:
(Picture via YouTube.com http://tinyurl.com/o2jmued)
Even though there aren't any achievements for having a load of mined objects and crafted things, it does bring me joy to find things such as gold, iron, redstone etc. and have them in my inventory. Most of the time, I have no idea how to use them (#n00bprobz) Occasionally, I wonder what to do with them as they just fill up my whole inventory and I only really need my sword because it's the only thing I use...
( Picture via Funnyjunk.com http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2276693/minecraft/)
Since I usually play with my group and we are in a building server, there aren't many fights that happen except with zombies. However the need of survival always overcomes and that has become the biggest motivation for my gameplay. I kill animals and try to survive zombie attacks because I need to stay alive. Collecting objects and such has not entirely shaped my gameplay only because I am still learning how to play and most of the time, I don't know what I can make with the things I collect. Using forums and apps that help me craft items is in a way helping my building skills but at the same time, it is not my main objective.
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- Nikka
- Born in '92. Annoyingly a morning person. Communications, Culture and Information Technology and Professional Writing double major. Always moving on.
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