A new idea has been surfacing in the gaming and game design communities, the idea that we might be able to use video games for a purpose other than enjoyment, or as some may call it time wasting.
This purpose is actually quite the opposite, not of the enjoyment part, some studies are showing that the science behind playing games and why we enjoy it are actually leading to the ability to break that down in hopes of applying it to the world we live in today to try and fix some of it’s problems.
These studies are showing the phycological effects of playing video games amongst other activities. What it is showing is that playing video games makes us happy, now this isn’t exactly revolutionary, we all know that why else would we be playing them? The new information is why exactly they make us happy, the science and the phycological reasons why. They fill a gap in our lives for a certain kind of rewarding work that isn’t easy to find elsewhere.
Despite being generally believed to be less productive many people actually play games in order to feel more productive, even in the real world. Even some of the most generally believed productive people in the world do it, CEO’s for example have been noted to play some kind of game during work even.
The reason that we all lean towards the world of video games isn’t so much because we don’t like this one, but more so because we just like that one more. And who can really blame you, the real world it’s there it happens whether you say so or not. However when you take a world that is tailored to be perfect for you which would you choose, the one were you’re Joe the Plumber cleaning a stopped up drain or Mario the Plumber saving a princess from a dragon/turtle/dinosaur? Whatever you want to say you’d pick the second one, now maybe Mario isn’t your thing but still the tailored world built to make you happy or the one that at times seems to be built to bring you down, which would you choose?
This purpose is actually quite the opposite, not of the enjoyment part, some studies are showing that the science behind playing games and why we enjoy it are actually leading to the ability to break that down in hopes of applying it to the world we live in today to try and fix some of it’s problems.
These studies are showing the phycological effects of playing video games amongst other activities. What it is showing is that playing video games makes us happy, now this isn’t exactly revolutionary, we all know that why else would we be playing them? The new information is why exactly they make us happy, the science and the phycological reasons why. They fill a gap in our lives for a certain kind of rewarding work that isn’t easy to find elsewhere.
Despite being generally believed to be less productive many people actually play games in order to feel more productive, even in the real world. Even some of the most generally believed productive people in the world do it, CEO’s for example have been noted to play some kind of game during work even.
The reason that we all lean towards the world of video games isn’t so much because we don’t like this one, but more so because we just like that one more. And who can really blame you, the real world it’s there it happens whether you say so or not. However when you take a world that is tailored to be perfect for you which would you choose, the one were you’re Joe the Plumber cleaning a stopped up drain or Mario the Plumber saving a princess from a dragon/turtle/dinosaur? Whatever you want to say you’d pick the second one, now maybe Mario isn’t your thing but still the tailored world built to make you happy or the one that at times seems to be built to bring you down, which would you choose?