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MEANINGFUL GAMEPLAY

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Eudaimonic experience is the ‘state of being emotionally moved, stimulated to reflect on one’s self or a sense of elevation.’ It contributes to the meaningful gameplay elements 

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Studying the effects of eudaimonic experiences within retrogaming could be proven to be useful as it helps players to ‘potentially increase prosocial attitudes and behaviors to help others,’ with acts such as contributing to donations.

What are some of the meaningful gameplay elements identified?

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Challenging Moral Decisions

Players are put in a difficult position to make a choice due to the moral decisions they are faced with.

Sense of Accomplishment

Gamers tend to seek the feeling of success as they pass through levels they couldn’t succeed when they were younger.

Attentiveness to Level Design

Players are more observant to the game layout as they tend to find more features and things when they pay attention to the different details in games.

A game’s story has the strongest connection to any eudaimonic experience, through the engagement with key narrative impacting choices, characters and audiovisual aspects, retro gaming serves as a way for players to return to their past ‘digitally’, like a time machine.

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