How does your study compare to previous work on gamer motivation?

Prompt

· Students will study their motivational cluster from paper 2 and compare new survey results to previous ones.

· The study results and conclusions will be presented in an informative report.

Objectives

· Write a 5-7 page informative report of the group’s survey results and compare them to previous research.

· The report must contain all elements: intro with hypothesis, literature review, methods, results, and conclusions.

· Groups will collect data using the Gamer Motivational Profile. Each student must complete the survey and provide the results (for an in-class assignment
). Each group member must get 5 unique and new results from outside; this number does not count the group members, class, or any provided surveys.

· The report must use data collected from group members, using the

Gamer Motivation Profile

from Quantic Foundry.

· The report must contain one bar graph that presents the group’s study results. It must be formatted and integrated using APA guidelines.

· The paper must have a useful intro. The intro sets up the topic and the hypothesis.

· The paper must have a clear and focused literature review.

· This will use source material from Paper 2 (NOT material copied and pasted from Paper 2), as well as data found from the

Quantic Foundry
website.

· The material will be presented in clear and focused paragraphs (not one paragraph) that are logically ordered.

· The methods section will go over the survey used and the group’s work to gather results.

· This will be logically organized over several paragraphs (a minimum of three).

· The results will present the data collected by the group.

· Each paragraph will be a story told by the data. These will include different demographics views and comparisons of those views. A minimum of three stories must be presented.

· Each story will be its own paragraph, and these will be logically organized.

· The graph will be properly integrated in the results section.

· The conclusions will synthesize the info from the literature review and the results.

· Each conclusion drawn from synthesizing literature review info and study results will be presented in its own paragraph.

· Paragraphs will be logically organized.

· Paragraphs throughout the report must be focused and clearly developed.

· Each paragraph needs to start with a topic sentence that summarizes what the paragraph covers and connect it to the others within its section.

· Detailed information must be provided. It may come from research, personal description, or data.

· Information must be explained and put within context, so the reader understands it on its own as well as with info from other paragraphs.

· Source material must be cited correctly using APA rules.

· The report must be formatted following the guidelines for APA style.

· The report uses Standard American English appropriate to an audience of college peers and faculty. It must be grammatically and mechanically correct.

Directions

· Complete the
Gamer Motivational Profile in Quantic Foundry. Record your results for all 12 of the motivations.

· Synthesize the research material from Paper 2 with info and data gained about
Quantic Foundry’s study. Below is a list of useful blog posts that contain data relevant to the paper.

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Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning

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Playing Outside the Binary: 6 Things We Learned from 14,000 Transgender and Non-Binary Gamers

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COVID-19 Reduced Appeal of Challenge and Excitement in Gaming—But Only Marginally

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Competition is Not the Opposite of Community

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Female Games Want to Kill You, Just Not with Guns

·

7 Things We Learned About Primary Gaming Motivations from Over 250,000 Gamers

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5 Things We Learned About the Appeal of Competition from over 239,000 Gamers*

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Local Co-Op is the Most Consistently Appealing Mode of Social Gaming Across Gender and Age

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The Dark Side Attracts Younger Gamers

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As Gamers Age, the Appeal of Competition Drops the Most. Strategy is the Most-Age Stable Motivation

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Focus on only the age and gender demographics (make sure to have a minimum of two groups for each demographic).

· Organize the info into a mini-paper that will become your literature review.

· Make sure to have one idea per paragraph.

· Start each paragraph with a clear and focused topic sentence that states the idea.

· Present all info from the Paper 2 sources and your new ones to illustrate the idea.

· Explain the source info and how it works together to illustrate your idea.

· Use your literature review to determine your hypothesis. What do you think your study will find about your chosen motivation and your demographic groups? The hypothesis must be supported by the info you are presenting from your Paper 2 sources and Quantify Foundry and nothing else.

· Decide, as a group, who you will have take the survey and how you will gather and share that info. Each group must gather 15 new responses (not including your group members and the class).

· Share what demographics you want to look at to determine who each group member will approach to complete the study.

· Determine how many people each person will ask.

· Decide the procedure everyone will take to ask participants and get the results from the surveys.

· Decide how you will collect and share the data.

· Write your methods section, detailing the survey (what is int it, how it works, what is shows), what actions your group took to gain your participants, and who the participants were.

· Using the collected data, create at least one bar graph that shows the main stories drawn from your data.

· Write the results section covering the stories you found.

· You want to cover a minimum of three different stories.

· Most stories should be about comparing different demographic groups (what males and females think about a motivation and how they compare) or different motivations among a demographic group (what do younger players think about both of your motivations and how does that compare).

· Make each paragraph a single story, presented in a clear topic sentence. Present the story using statistical summaries (such as percent difference). Explain how the data illustrates the story.

· Organize the stories in a logical way.

· Place your graph after the first direct reference to it. Make sure it has a label and number, title, axis titles, legend, and, if needed, a note. Make sure it is easy to read and understand.

· Synthesize your stories with the conclusions presented in the literature review.

· Find all conclusions drawn by comparing your data to Quantic Foundry’s data and previous research.

· Determine which ones are most important to cover. You will want at least three.

· Build the paragraphs for each conclusion.

· Start with a topic sentence that states the conclusion drawn from the synthesis.

· Summarize and reference the literature review and results rather than presenting the specific info again.

· Explain how the info leads to the conclusion.

· Organize the conclusion paragraphs.

· Write a final concluding paragraph that presents the limitations of your study and what you think future studies will find.

· Format the report in APA style and make sure all source material is correctly cited following APA guidelines.

· Revise the report based on professor and peer feedback.

· Edit and proofread the report.