How video games change players varies widely. It depends not only on the game but the player, the context they play in and other Activities they enjoy alongside the game.

To record the ways that games change players we have worked with Sabrina Culyba, author of The Transformational Framework. In that book she identifies 10 key areas of change that games bring to the player. We have recorded 152 different transformations through our Game Pathways interviews. They identify not only change for a single game but how these transformations accumulate through a series of related games in the life of a player.

Here are some recent transformation players have told us about the games they are playing:


Here are the different types of transformation we ask players about in our Game Pathway interviews: