Games Fun
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So for this reading week task, I was reading about articles that relate to "Game Fun". Having the game to be fun is very important because therefore the player will play more and more of the game. The fun in games produces things called "Dopamine" in our brains which is a feel-good hormone which when it is produced while playing games, tend to stay on that particular game for hours. Dopamine can also be produced in many other ways such as eating nice food, hanging out with friends, going to the gym, scrolling on social media and of course playing video games.
Every single game has different elements and components that make their game fun. For example, the soundtrack and sound effects can make the player more engaged in the atmosphere of the game, unique and amazing level design that makes the player astounded by its particular colours, textures, environment, objects etc and different forms of game mechanics that make that particular game such as shooting different weapons for FPS games, being able to jump on enemies heads on Mario in platformer games, in fighting games like Tekken being able to pull off a string of fighting combos to injure your opponent and being able to score points on a sports game like FIFA etc.
There are a few interesting articles I read about the Games Fun factor and it gives some very good information :
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/10451/dont-forget-the-fun-factor-in-educational-games
https://universityxp.com/blog/2019/7/31/fun-factors
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