
003 - Psychological Flow
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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The Role of Group Flow in Gaming
The idea is that single player games, you know, where you're just sitting there and playing by yourself and maybe you experience flow or maybe you don't. But that's only sort of one way that people can play games and increasingly so people either playing with each other couch co-op,. they're physically located with each other, they're playing online. And even if they're not necessarily playing online, they're doing things like comparing scores on leaderboards. So essentially it's trying to acknowledge the fact that in the context of gaming, as you identify, there are so many different social components that can be happening.
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