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When Tutorials Learn Too: Applying Dynamic Trait-Driven Personalisation to Game Tutorials

Should every player get the same tutorial? Exploring the use of player modelling and player experience frameworks to trigger a major gameplay intervention.

Teaching to Play: What Academic Literature Tells Us About Tutorials

From text boxes to invisible guidance, researchers have been studying how tutorials affect player learning and engagement for over a decade.

How Astro did all of the heavy lifting, empowering us to add more nonsense onto the internet

I am a lover of top-level domains. I have been buying useless-but-funny TDL or generic TLDs for over a decade. My charity event (hugs.tf) was a joke based on a friend's HUD site domain (huds.tf),...