Identify what your player’s core motivation is and how the player progresses.

Motivations

Primary motivation

What is your player’s primary motivation? What thing drives them in life? (See the talks and pdf in further reading for examples.)

Strategy

• Players are constantly thinking ahead, managing resources, and making impactful decisions in a shared competitive space.
• Core loop revolves around efficiency, timing, and outwitting the opponent.

Secondary motivations

What other motivations drive your player, if any.

Competition

• Directly competing for guests, resources, and influence in a shared hotel space.

Challenge

• Managing incidents, balancing economy, and reacting to sabotage keeps the gameplay tense.

Fantasy

• Player's step into the shoes of shady hotel managers, participating in the underworld.

Power

• Gaining Gold Coins, executing sabotage, and winning control delivers a feeling of power and control.

Add Completion to complete the “Tall” Cluster.

Progression

How does the core action in the game support your player’s primary motivation?