I am a User Researcher, currently living in Hamburg, Germany. My educational background includes a Master's degree in Psychology, specialized in computer games studies.
Lot's of interests but in the end, it's all about the fun ;)
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What's the relation between complexity of a video game and its success? Is there any? This article discusses various kinds of complexity and its impact on the success of a game.
Unfortunately the withering and water/ energy bar mechanics are too powerful tools for increasing the virality and monetization effectivity to just leave them out at least for F2P and FB games ... sadly enough, these very mechanics transform the motivation to play from fun into compulsion and thereby making thoughtful ...
A game can provide you with guidance and motivation in order to achieve this very goal. In the game SuperBetter you can select meditation as your goal and it will present to you a range of exercises to improve your attention ability to concentration e.g. be still for one minute ...
Great article, thanks r nI wish more game designers in the industry would strive for prosocial effects of their games. r n r nActually, there is a growing pool of serious games using CBT techniques, for example see http://sparx.org.nz/
Thanks for sharing your thoughts r nLast time it happened to me was with the Secret World MMO installer, which does not resume when you cancel it and restart. And it would take more than 8 hours for me to download it... I gave it two attempts and that 's ...
