Game Techniques within Social Influence & Relatedness
You have learned more about the motivational and psychological nature of Core Drive 5: Social Influence & Relatedness. To make it more actionable, I’ve included some Game Techniques below that heavily utilize this Core Drive to engage users.
Mentorship (Game Technique #61)
At the beginning of the chapter, I shared how powerful mentorship could be in a game setting such as Parallel Kingdom, but it is also a consistently effective tool in every medium of activity that requires sustained motivation.
American universities are well known for their student social groups consisting of highly active fraternities and sororities. Many fraternities have rather long and involved initiation rituals for their new members. During the rigorous process of joining a fraternity, a “Big Bro/Little Bro” system is employed where an experienced member in the organization will be matched up with a new potential member going...