Podcast 41: How Video Games Prepare You For Success
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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The Psychology of Mind-Gamification
Games are co-created so like the game developer will set up boundaries in terms of rules and mechanics but then the player decides what to do within those boundaries. The gamification systems a lot of times ignore that kind of thing and they ignore the players agency and the players role in co-creating that experience. If the mechanisms aren't thought out or implemented well enough sometimes you'll promote the wrong types of behaviors in pursuit of whatever those rewards end up being.
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