Tom Chatfield: 7 Ways Games Reward the Brain
Gaming theorist Tom Chatfield spends his time analyzing games; what we want from them, what we get from them, and how individuals might use their hard-wired desire for a gamer’s reward to change the way they learn. In this fascinating TED-Talk, Chatfield draws our attention to how games are meticulously designed to issue players with rewards in a manner that retain their engagement and leave them wanting more. Chatfield argues that we can use games to learn things about learning, by considering how individual engagement can be transformed by the psychological and the neurological lessons we can learn from watching people that are playing games.
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