Posted by Taekwan Kim on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:54:00 EST in
We need to emerge from the shadow of our unsubstantiated fear that games are “just games”—that they are trivial, meaningless pursuits when there are better things to do with our time.
In which the concept of interaction is discussed, an attempt to understand gameplay through Jungian psychology is made, and a functional purpose of games is proposed.
Mr. Storm, I very much appreciate your comments they are quite encouraging. And you are absolutely correct when you state that the term identity conjures up more ethereal ideas--that is actually the exact problem in working from a Jungian theoretical framework. I use the term identity because of its context ...
My apologies for the considerably delayed response. Thank you for reading through the post, it was rather too verbose I must admit. Also, that's a very interesting definition of flow--quite objectively accurate I must say. Thank you for pointing me towards it, I will surely look up his work. The ...
Mr. Nemitz: For the sake of my argument, I would have proposed that perhaps the two types of fun you discuss are actually describing two different aspects of your personality that you are expressing through games--but Mr. Stelluti's comment made me think twice, and this proposal may very well be ...
That's an interesting take Mr. Parsons--I wonder what your opinions are on Guild Wars in particular, random or team arenas , if you have had the chance to play that game. Guild Wars random arenas is also a four player team set up, with a pretty large, though maybe not ...
Thank you for the comment and my apologizes for a delayed response . I know exactly what you mean, as I'm sure many gamers do. There's actually been studies indicating that the brain activity observed in the deep meditation undergone by Buddhist monks is actually the same as that experienced ...
