After retaking a bunch of the RL political quizzes recently (the good old Political Compass, the 8Values quiz, 9Axes, PolitiScales, etc.), I got to thinking about the original Gameplay Alignment Test that floats around from time to time. It's very much the Gameplay equivalent of the Political Compass, with all its positives and negatives: very simple and easily visualized, but also a bit reductive. While any online quiz that attempts to analyze your views is bound to simplify quite a bit, I wondered about one for GP that would go in the other direction: attempting to identify as cleanly as possible the many different traits that manifest themselves in surface forms like "raider" and "defender".
So I thought up a bunch of axes and put together a quiz/plotter. It's currently basically a Google Form linked up with some Google Apps Script to a spreadsheet that generates a bar chart of your results. It's very much in development: I'm releasing it here so that I can get a bunch of people to test it in order to figure out where the flaws are. I've started with a whole bunch of axes and values based on my intuitions about what divides there are in the GP community; based on the data and any feedback I get, I'll almost certainly combine some (if two values are closely correlated), remove some (if a value shows little to no range), add some (if feedback tells me people think there's an axis I'm missing), and/or rewrite questions (if everyone answers them the same way).
Of course, this test isn't a historical record or an icon of NSGP culture like the original test is -- it's mostly just for my own fun and hopefully for some of y'all's fun as well
Please DM/ping me on Discord @Somyrion#8047 (in any server I share with you) with suggestions about how to improve the test. I'm in a bit of a defender bubble, haven't done R/D for a while... all's to say, my intuitions may not be as good as yours, especially not on whether your own results are accurate! Some things to think about:
- are there other questions that should be added? are there ones that are poorly written?
- is it easy enough to access the results? do the results seem accurate?
- do the axes make sense? are there others that you can think of?
Disclaimer:
Credit to Unibot for many of the questions, which were shamelessly stolen from the original Gameplay Alignment Test (at least until I can think up another 30 better ones).