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Precision of Emotion: A New Kind of “Fun” Approach in Educational Games

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In this 2015 GDC talk, GlassLab’s Erin Hoffman presents a new theory of “fun,” by positing fun is shorthand for a very complex psychological process by which we as humans convert stress into satisfaction through insight.

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