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Designed Chain of Activities: The compulsion loops should consist of a set of specifically designed activities within each step in the chain.

Habitual: The purpose of the loop is to create a long lasting and constantly repeated habit.

There are three key notions to understand comprising this definition: My definition of the compulsion loop is a very slight variation of a definition put forth by Adam Crowe as follows:Ĭompulsion Loop: A habitual, designed chain of activities that will be repeated to gain a neurochemical reward: a feeling of pleasure and/or a relief from pain.

Hence, this post attempts to detail the concept, expand the concept a bit with my own interpretation, and describe the potential future opportunity leveraging this concept. To date there hasn’t been (as far as I can tell) a very compact and easy to understand coverage of the compulsion loop concept.

The compulsion loop concept regained popularity in the 2010-2012 period with the application of compulsion loop principles in social games and especially by companies such as Zynga however, I believe this is an area of future opportunity that will potentially gain a renaissance especially in mobile gaming. Since the concept of the compulsion loop applied to video games was introduced as early as 2001 by John Hopson (while a researcher at Bungie), we’ve seen compulsion loop mechanics integrated into video games fairly broadly.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.