Playstyles in Tetris: Beyond Player Skill, Score, and Competition

Stéphanie Mader (1) , Eloïse Tassin (1)

1 CEDRIC - ILJ - CEDRIC - Interactivité pour Lire et Jouer

In this study, we looked at playstyles in Tetris in order to explore how players construct meaning in abstract video games. To do this, we looked at playstyles that go beyond metrics related to player skill, score and competition. Indeed, non-expert playstyle are often neglected in playstyle studies, but construction of meaning can also occur in noncompetitive playstyles. We logged the play of 31 Tetris players and used Principal Component Analysis to model their playstyles. In doing so, we discovered 4 distinct playstyles that we present in this paper.

Mots clés: Playstyles; Player models; Game logs; Telemetry; Player Models; Tetris

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Stéphanie Mader, Eloïse Tassin. Playstyles in Tetris: Beyond Player Skill, Score, and Competition. The 21st IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING (IFIP ICEC 2022), Nov 2022, Bremen, Germany. pp.162-170, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-20212-4_13⟩. ⟨hal-03847457⟩