Deep: a video game for calm, deep breathing
“New methods for treating anxiety, trauma and mental illness are emerging at the intersection of games and therapy.” – Laura…
Top Free-to-Play Monetization Tricks
The Coercive Monetization Model: how to extract money from Free-to-play gamers: A coercive monetization model depends on the ability to…
Will Wright on video game addiction
“Every form of media in some sense has [an] ability to displace people in their imagination into some other place…
William Gibson on videogames
“It seemed to me that what [players] wanted was to be inside the games, within the notional space of the…
Anxiety Therapy and Video Games
“A team of students and faculty from Rochester Institute of Technology and St. John Fisher College is designing and building…
Persuasive Games
Over at Institute for the Future, Mathias Crawford recently published a thoughtful essay on how games persuade us to change…
Behaviorist Game Design
Dan Lawrence recently posted a thoughtful essay about ethics, psychology, and game design: It seems to me that the very…