A kid will quit a math app in 6 minutes, but grind Factorio for 6 hours

Summary

Short X observation: kids quit gamified math apps quickly despite points, badges, and streaks, but grind Factorio for hours with none of those. No linked paper, repo, or blog in the post or unroll. Cataloged as the tweet.

Keywords

edtech · factorio · gamification · x

Topics

edtech, game design, intrinsic motivation

Research notes

• Primary: X post via fxtwitter. No follow-through paper/repo/blog in the tweet or unroll. Author @recessgg. Cataloged the tweet as other. Not a hosted corpus, so no datasets_local row.