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Masters Thesis: "Parsing the Paramour: How Players' Sexuality, Motivations, and UDO Influence their Romantic Decisions in Western Role-playing games."
Individual Researcher & Author | June 2023 - April 2024
Recently completed graduate-level quantitative and qualitative research into genre-specific player communities under the direction of Dr Elizabeth Stringer. The statistical analysis incorporates ordinal and nominal data from a human research survey with 1,001 start-to-finish participants. This thesis considers participants' sexual orientations, Universal-Diverse Orientation (UDO) scores, and Nick Yee's player motivation types as variables that influence romantic subplot decisions in AAA Western RPGs like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Divinity, and Baldur's Gate. (Full paper and analysis coming soon!)
Survey Creation & Administration (Qualtrics XM)
Genre & Player Community Analysis
1000+ Participants Surveyed over a 2-Month Window
Collected Industry and Community Feedback during Analysis Crafting
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