Getting Gamers
Book description
Video games are big business. They can be addicting. They are available almost anywhere you go and are appealing to people of all ages. They can eat up our time, cost us money, even kill our relationships. But it's not all bad! This book will show that rather than being…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Getting Gamers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Getting Gamers shows us that the science of video games is the science of human interaction. In fact, some game development studios staff teams of psychologists and researchers, and sometimes those teams use virtual spaces as testing environments for psychology theories.
How does physical appearance prime social interactions (ie, the Proteus Effect), for example? With the wealth of avatar customization options available to gamers, we can carefully articulate and test our assumptions of interactions in groups using MMOs (massive multiplayer online games).
Tell your non-gaming friends: video games remind us that we are human!
From Caleb's list on to defend your video game obsession to non-gamers.
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