Chaining "Skill Atoms" together (Dan Cook's Game Loops Schema) creates a chain of player's learned skills, allowing designers to track player progress and identify how different states of skill mastery impact game engagement - Following interests still needs discipline.

Each skill can be in one of these 5 states:

• Mastered skills (Game Loops Enhance Mastery)
• Partially-mastered skills
• Active skills
• Unexercised skills (The absolve approach is merely wishful thinking?)
• Burned-out skills

Each play a role in shaping the player's experience. A key insight is that burnout serves as a clear indicator that a game might be losing the player's attention, guiding designers to address and fine-tune their games more accurately.

: is boredom (flow state) like burnout? Is burnout a flow state problem? Look at the article to see what Dan says.

Skill Atoms Article

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