Game Design Zeigarnik Effect Audit

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Audit a game, feature, task system, quest flow, event track, puzzle chain, progression layer, or return loop through the lens of the Zeigarnik effect: the tension created by incomplete, interrupted, or unresolved tasks. Use when evaluating whether a design creates healthy return motivation through open loops, whether it leaves players with productive unfinished business, or whether it turns incompletion into anxiety, clutter, guilt, or manipulative pressure.