Video Games: A Psychological Analysis

The goal of every game is to present the user(s) with a situation, accept their input, interpret that input into action, and calculate a new situation spawned from those actions. Games continuously loop through these stages, as this pattern corresponds to how a game engine is programmed, and the specifics depend on the game itself. Some game loops are advanced by the user’s input and remains “asleep” until it is provided. Other games may use frames of animation which progress the cycle and any change that the user input is caught at the first available turn.
The type of code used to program a game depends on the type of game being made. There is no best language as it depends on which serves best the platform you’re developing on. Big console …show more content…
Small console games on platforms such as Xbox Live Arcade or Windows can also be developed in C#, Java, or VB. iOS games for Apple products, such as iPhone, iPad, or iPod, are usually programmed …show more content…
Her most known theory that is continuously referenced in her posts, the theory of gaming motivation, helps to understand how video games can both help and hurt us and covers such fields as video game addiction and video games in education. According to this theory, there are eleven basic psychological needs that people can satisfy by playing video games. Someone wishes to fulfill at least one of these needs whenever they are motivated to play video games and it is common for a person to want to fulfill multiple needs at the same time, with their needs changing over time. The eleven basic needs are gaining knowledge, gaining and developing skills, feeling proficient, maintaining through hard times, making tools, handling danger, controlling emotions, competing for prizes, collaborating for rewards, caring for loved ones, and satisfying the senses will pleasing inputs. These basic needs are not always felt for what they are, as most individuals simply desire the rewards they offer and instinctively do the right things to fulfill neglected needs. The basic assumption of this is that all healthy people have several basic needs that they are motivated to fulfill for their own sakes, as such our most fundamental, innate motivations are to fulfill our needs for survival, which are: to survive as best you can as an individual, reproduce with the healthiest