New Study Shows Placebo Effect Can Change Gamers Perceptions Of Game Difficulty And Immersion Don T Starve
Two researchers at the University of York have found that gamers report different gaming experiences when told the game they’re playing has “extra” gameplay features. This occurs even when the game they’re playing has the exact same features. For their experiment, Paul Cairns and a colleague had a group of participants play two rounds of Don’t Starve, the rogue/surivival adventure game by Klei Entertainment. Participants were told that the first round of gameplay would feature “randomly generated” map features, including survival items and monsters....