Editing Gamer (section)

==Psychology==
{{Main|Learning curve#Difficulty curves in video games}}
[[Shigeru Miyamoto]] says that "I think that first a game needs a sense of accomplishment. And you have to have a sense that you have done something, so that you get that sense of satisfaction of completing something."<ref>How the inventor of Mario designs a game – Vox</ref>

In April 2020, researchers found that top gamers shared the same [[mental toughness]] as [[Olympic Games|Olympian athletes]].<ref name="QUT-20200611">{{cite news |publisher=Queensland University of Technology |title=Elite gamers share mental toughness with top athletes, study finds – The influence of mental toughness in elite esports |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/quot-egs061120.php |date=11 June 2020 |work=[[EurekAlert!]] |access-date=11 June 2020 |archive-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611184638/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/quot-egs061120.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="FIP-20200423">{{cite journal |author=Poulus, Dylan |display-authors=et al. |title=Stress and Coping in Esports and the Influence of Mental Toughness |date=23 April 2020 |journal=[[Frontiers in Psychology]] |volume=11 |page=628 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00628 |pmid=32390900 |pmc=7191198 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Escapism is a major factor in why individuals enjoy gaming. This idea of being in another world while gaming has become very common with gamers, these video games create a new world where these gamers feel they fit in and can control what is going on'''.'''<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Giardina|first1=Alessandro|last2=Starcevic|first2=Vladan|last3=King|first3=Daniel L.|last4=Schimmenti|first4=Adriano|last5=Di Blasi|first5=Maria|last6=Billieux|first6=Joël|date=2021-09-23|title=Research Directions in the Study of Gaming-Related Escapism: a Commentary to Melodia, Canale, and Griffiths (2020)|journal=International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction|volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=1075–1081 |doi=10.1007/s11469-021-00642-8|s2cid=237611120|issn=1557-1874|doi-access=free|hdl=10447/520312|hdl-access=free}}</ref> Gaming is a form of escapism,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Muriel |first1=Daniel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHhQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT121 |title=Video Games as Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society |last2=Crawford |first2=Garry |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-317-22392-4 |page=121 |access-date=April 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125231331/https://books.google.com/books?id=cHhQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT121 |archive-date=January 25, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Hideo Kojima]] states that "If the player isn't tricked into believing that the world is real, then there's no point in making the game."<ref name="Holmes2012">{{cite book |last=Holmes |first=Dylan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFBzOO17SHcC&pg=PA83 |title=A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games |publisher=Dylan Holmes |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-4800-0575-4 |page=83 |access-date=April 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125231331/https://books.google.com/books?id=DFBzOO17SHcC&pg=PA83 |archive-date=January 25, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>