Why Do We Play Games?
<div class="IPBDescription">a game design article</div> i googled up something today:
<a href='http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Chapter2.html' target='_blank'>http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/g...k/Chapter2.html</a>
this is only chapter 2, and the only one i cared about, but the entire book is worth a read. honestly, i never even thought about most of these as i played starcraft or natural selection. it was simply a lot of fun. what do you think?
<a href='http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Chapter2.html' target='_blank'>http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/g...k/Chapter2.html</a>
this is only chapter 2, and the only one i cared about, but the entire book is worth a read. honestly, i never even thought about most of these as i played starcraft or natural selection. it was simply a lot of fun. what do you think?
Comments
Meh...I guarantee most of us don't play games to learn. Take the best CS player and put him in a real covert ops situation, and he'd **** his pants.
My reason for gaming is twofold: I play online games to meet new people and compare my skills to other gamers, and I play single player games to challenge myself, which I find fun as well.
I hate this. I wish this never existed. G_G ego.
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But are not needed to make a successful game. Imagination > Graphics. See Rogue.
[I skimmed it, and it was moderately interesting... but the last few pages (4,5,6) were all technical stuff. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> ]
here i was thinking you were playing games coz your parents made you do it. the article defines exactly what "enjoyment" and "fun" is, the complex web of emotions that make the game so desirable. as much as you might want to deny it, part of the reason you play multiplayer games is probably because you want to prove yourself better then the next player. i'm a pretty competitive person, so i do play games to learn to be better at games. i.e. playing quake 3 really helps players develop a sense of prediction, a skill most people don't quite excel at in ns.
Exercise is another common motivation to play games....<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
...wait, what? "Exercise"?...
Oh, wait. They must be talking about DDR.
when you play duels 1v1, the prediction gets thousands of times more complicated. ever watch fatal1ty rail someone as he jumps off a cliff and hasn't even seen yet? that's prediction my man :X
Pah , Q3 prediction is lightyears away from Tribes 2 prediction <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->