Irrational Games

When we think of games, we think of kids, immaturity, and time-wasting individuals who have nothing else better to do. Gamification is about applying game-design elements and principles into non-game contexts in order to improve user experience, productivity, education, assessment, mentality, physicality, and or legality. By using gamification, companies can assess their future consumers and employees, and develop systems that can improve their own company. Our future leaders will be…

video games when I was about fifteen or sixteen. It became a problem I think, I used them to escape from my family. With playing video games excessively so did eating junk food. I had a poor family, but once you start hiding the popcorn bag in your room so no one eats it…

me to be the person, and player I truly was. I was never loud, rough, nor did I ever play dirty so it came as a big surprise when I got into a fight with another player. It was against our rivals the Moanche High School girls basketball team, so the game was already intense, I remember the situation as if it was yesterday, I was playing defense grading this girl and all through out the night she was playing dirty, elbowing me every chance she got. I’ve finally had enough and started elbowing her…

Name # Madison Hanna Period: 4/5 Argumentative Speech Outline Due Date­: May 12, 2015 DO VIDEO GAMES ADVERSELY AFFECT ADOLESCENTS? Introduction: Attention getter (hook, link to audience, why this topic is important) 20 year old Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary school with his hands clutched around his gun, he might have had no idea that this wasn’t a fantasy killing. This was real life. According to Business Insider, Adam spent most of his adolescent…

Today is the big game, as I’m sitting in class thinking how important this game is to the whole school. Even though I was not going to play because I’m the backup goalkeeper I was still excited to be part of the team. This is my senior year and I hoped to have memorable moments. “Let’s all support the boys and girls soccer team in today’s game versus Leuzinger at 7 o clock. Go Cougars!” The principle, Mr. Newell seem extremely excited over the announcements for tonight’s game against our…

In my life, nothing has taught me more about life than the game of baseball. When you play a game that is about winning and losing since early childhood, you will be able to handle the winning and losing of life a lot easier. Losing always make players dream of what it would be like to win a championship and be the best at there game. I experienced the ups and down’s of this game all to well, and wouldn’t be that person I am today without it. In my first year of kindergarten, I played league…

that most people don’t think of as competitive. Scrabble. Competitive Scrabble is a pastime for tens of thousands of people worldwide. There are all kinds of people who play Scrabble competitively, even children. COOPER 2 COOPER: (0:57) A very good game would be like a 400. Braggable is maybe 500. The best I’ve gotten in a club or tournament is 568, but I got like a 6-something against a friend. That’s Cooper Komatsu, an 8th grader from Southern California, and one of the top youth Scrabble…

nothing too serious these days, not that many people playing. I have to shoot on every hoop for the different feels of the rims, using it as a way to get my mind off of being nervous about the college life. I did that every day until Saturday: the game changer. That morning of walking into the gym around 10am there were so many people in the gym. On the left side, it felt as if every machine was being used and I realized for the first time there was a second floor of machines also being…

Playful Pals Playschool is a healthy environment for children to have their first school experience. It is designed in a way that children never feel bored and develop an instant liking to the playschool so that the idea of proper school does not seem that frightening to them later when they begin school. Our playschool helps children come out of their shells, discover their strengths and their weaknesses and, develop self-confidence. Playschool is an excellent opportunity for children to…

and how you what to play the game. For instance, do you want to play with infiltrators and an offensive strategy or do you want to use bulkier characters and play defensive strategy. Even in the game you might have to readjust your plan to better combat your opponent. A study done by Queen Mary and University College London researchers found that StarCraft can improve cognitive flexibility in people who play it. In the study they had seventy-two volunteers who play games less than two hours a…