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Angry Birds. Undoubtedly one of the most addictive time-sink video games ever produced. If you haven’t played, you should. Aside from [...]
April 15, 2013
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In the prior post, I talked about how actions can map onto cognitive learning. In this post, I’ll extend this and look at tool use in [...]
April 5, 2013
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In several previous posts, I talk about the idea of creating motivation (here, here and here). If a player comes to a game expecting to like [...]
February 28, 2013
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The basal ganglia are is a group of structures nestled under the cerebral cortex. What exactly the basal ganglia do remains controversial and [...]
January 16, 2012
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Motivation is a complex concept with a long history in psychology and neuroscience. I am going to sketch a notion of ‘motivational [...]
January 8, 2012
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With games like Farmvile, Mafia Wars and Cityville, Zynga has helped expand the traditional game market and captured an absurd number of monthly [...]
December 19, 2011
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It’s natural for video game designers to think of their competition as other video games. But video games, especially among people who are [...]
December 5, 2011
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No one can question the success of Zynga, but the value of its contribution to the video game industry seems highly controversial. On one hand, [...]
December 4, 2011
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Who says advertising never contributed anything of worth to humanity? After playing this game, I went out and bought a pack of Trident vitality [...]
November 6, 2011
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I loved this game. It exemplifies for me the strip-bare-and-put-back-with-deliberation-only-what-is-essential-to-the-experience principle. In [...]
October 29, 2011
