Are you an achiever, an explorer, a socializer, or a killer?

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In the 1996 paper – Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs, Richard Bartle described how mindsets and goals of different players could be described in a way to analyze the dynamic of balance in a game:

• Achievers are goal-oriented and enjoy meeting milestones they set for themselves
• Explorers want to learn as much as they can about the game they’re playing—mapping it, experimenting with it
• Socializers most enjoy their interactions and conversations with others; relationship building
• Killers like to demonstrate and exercise their power over others (and make impact on others)

Bartle’s paper has some fascinating discussion of how the balance of a game might be tweaked by focusing on combinations of these player roles.

But what are you? Are you an achiever, an explorer, a socialized, or a killer?

That is, what motivates you to do anything you do. Do you do things to learn how to achieve something? To dig into the explration? To be part of a community? Or, to have more impact on the world?