A Slight Glimpse at Video Game Addiction from a Designer Standpoint |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 9:13 pm |
| Tags: gamer life, computer, addiction debate, indiana university purude, video game addiction, video game design |
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The title may be misleading: This video game addiction news story on Indystar.com focuses, as all video game addiction news stories do, on one gamer’s story which makes all gamers look like, well, freaks. In this case, Parke Dieckmeyer’s attachment to video games got so bad in his freshman year of college that he had to ask his RA to lock up his computer so he could get his studying done. But what you should focus on is the very last section in the news story, the only part actually worth something. It starts off with a great comparison: the average American spends 32 hours per week watching television. But as the article reads, these same Americans may very well be appalled by the idea of playing games for four to five hours per day, probably because they find it a “useless” activity. This last section of the article is great because it looks at the whole addiction debate from the “gamers” side, and it’s interesting to see how it is likely to [ Full article ] |
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