Monday, 31 July 2017

Screen Saviors: Can Activism-Focused Games Change Our Behavior?

quote [ In recent years, there has been an influx of games centered on social and political issues from sexism to racism to the refugee crisis. In one of the latest, you rescue animals in a slaughterhouse.

If you don't have time to call your senator, stage a protest or partake in a rescue mission at a slaughterhouse, you can at least save some chickens on your phone. Thanks to the new animal rights app Paintball Hero, created by 17-year-old game developer Skylar Thomas, animal liberation is now as easy as click, swipe, win. ]

If I thought games could create changed behavior outcomes IRL, I'd have to never play GTA or its ilk.

I don't want that result, so that makes me pretty skeptical.




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[by HoZay]
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damnit said @ 11:47pm GMT on 1st August
I'm not sure if this is a general comment or directed at me, cause I'm in the camp that games can change your behavior.

I was looking at as if the games change your behavior subconsciously and immersion through playing long hours and staying up will do just that.

Kids are generally impressionable so you'll most likely do these changes with that demographic. Not so much with adults. Desensitization to different stimulus levels also a factor.


damnit said @ 11:48pm GMT on 1st August
I'm not sure if this is a general comment or directed at me, cause I'm in the camp that games can change your behavior.

I was looking at as if the games change your behavior subconsciously and immersion through playing long hours and staying up will do just that.

Kids are generally impressionable so you'll most likely see these changes with that demographic. Not so much with adults. Desensitization to different stimulus levels also a factor.



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damnit said @ 11:47pm GMT on 1st August
I'm not sure if this is a general comment or directed at me, cause I'm in the camp that games can change your behavior.

I was looking at as if the games change your behavior subconsciously and immersion through playing long hours and staying up will do just that.

Kids are generally impressionable so you'll most likely see these changes with that demographic. Not so much with adults. Desensitization to different stimulus levels also a factor.




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