{"id":179,"date":"2009-10-23T09:07:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T15:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:21:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:21:18","slug":"game-violence-as-positive-reinforcer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/10\/game-violence-as-positive-reinforcer\/","title":{"rendered":"Game violence as positive reinforcer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Gamasutra (<em>&#8220;Kill Polygon, Kill&#8221;<\/em>), game designer Noah Falstein offers some interesting comments about the usefulness of violent videogames:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Re-mission.png\" alt=\"Re-Mission\" title=\"Re-Mission\" width=\"196\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-180\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI contributed to the ReMission game from Hopelab &#8212; fairly violent 3rd person shooter. But the violence is directed against cancer cells and bacteria, and the game is proven to help kids with cancer stick to their treatment regiments &#8212; so it makes for a good example when people tell me they wish they could ban violent videogames. And for the record, I think the violence in ReMission is part of what makes the &#8220;take your chemo drugs&#8221; message stick with them. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/4169\/kill_polygon_kill_violence_.php\">Noah Falstein<\/a> @ Gamasutra\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-mission.net\/\">Re-Mission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Gamasutra (&#8220;Kill Polygon, Kill&#8221;), game designer Noah Falstein offers some interesting comments about the usefulness of violent videogames: I contributed to the ReMission game from Hopelab &#8212; fairly violent 3rd person shooter. But the violence is directed against cancer cells and bacteria, and the game is proven to help kids with cancer stick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-video-games","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}