Refining the flow diagram

on Oct 19, 2012
Last month, I posted on the origins of Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow, but the diagram I focused on there (and that tends to pervade discussion of flow among game designers) is actually a bit dated. Preparing for a reading group on...

The Origins of Flow

on Sep 11, 2012
As a reader of MP, there’s a decent chance that you’re already familiar with the concept of “flow” championed by positive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced like this, not this). If you aren’t up to speed...