Chapter 4. The Players

In this chapter, we'll outline the characters, users, and stakeholders (players) in our system/project. In Chapter 2, The Framework, we discussed the player types outlined in Bartle's Games Test (killers, achievers, socializers, and explorers). We need to take a closer look at our users/players and their motivations so as to maximize that understanding when designing our gamified e-learning system. We will wrap up the chapter with some initial database design in MySQL so that we have all of the technologies in place to build our system.