Give Me Interactive Kicks
I am not from the television generation. I am a Computer Game Kid. I want to interact. I want to say something back when you communicate with me.
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“The DIRTY little secret of gaming is how much time you spend not having fun. You may be frustrated; you may be confused or disoriented; you may be stuck. When you put the game down and move back into real world, you may find yourself mentally working through the problem you’ve been wrestling with, as though you were worrying a loose tooth. If this is mindless escapism, it’s a strange masochistic version. Who wants to escape to a world that irritates you 90 percent of the time?”
“It’s not the subject matter of these games that attracts—if that were the case, you’d never see twenty-something following absurd rescue-the-princess storylines like the best-selling Zelda series on the Nintendo platform. It’s the reward system that draws those players in, and keep their famously short attention spans locked on the screen. No other form of entertainment offers that cocktail of reward and exploration: we don’t “explore” movies or television or music in anything but the most figurative sense of the word. And while there are rewards to those other forms—music in fact had been shown to trigger opioid release in the brain—they don’t come in the exaggerated, tantalizing packaging that video games wrap around them.”
Got Game by John C. Beck & Mitchell Wade
“…An appetite for risk, a willingness to experiment, and a high degree of comfort in teams. All of these skills can be used for both good and ill. At a time when our culture is rife with stories about the teenager who spends all his time playing video games, Beck and Wade tell the unorthodox side of the story—it turns out that these ‘loners’ are actually gaining skills valuable to business.”
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