Game Fun

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This week our readings were all about the types of people that play games and also why we find games fun!

In the first article, we learnt about why we enjoy playing games and how it has been passed down over thousands of years.
Our ancestors from over 30,000 years ago would have used games as a way of developing their hunting skills in a safe environment out of harms way.
There are usually three types of people when it comes to this sort of thinking and the article uses hunter gathers as an explanation.
Type A- those who go and hunt and then once they have caught some food and returned it to their family, will go back out to hunt for even more food. This puts them in danger even when they don’t need to be.
Type B- those who go out and hunt, bring back food and then go straight to relaxing. This may give them more energy for the next hunt but it does not build their skills or develop their fitness.
Type C- those who once they have caught food and returned it to their family, will spend time in a safe environment practicing their skills and building strength by playing games by for example trying to knock over stacked rocks.

The article refers to these as ‘natural funativity’ this being a mixture of natural selection and game funativity.


The second article talks about the different kinds of people who interact with games, particularly MMOs.
They refer to this set as diamonds, spades, hearts and clubs.
Each of these types of people play games differently and receive a different experience from them

Diamonds- these are the achievers, they want to collect and achieve as much as they can in the game.
Spades- these are the explorers, they want to learn as much as they can about the world and gain as much information as they can.
Hearts- these are the people that empathise with others.
And finally
Clubs- they intend to cause harm to other players. They hit people over the head with their clubs.


Signing off
-AK