Monday, March 29, 2010

Gaming superpowers

According to the TED video I just watched, multiplayer and online gaming not only increases trust in each other, but also gives gamers the ability of super-empowered optimism from doing things that 'saves' the online world. Reasearchers are doing their thing around gaming, and how gaming can affect a person's ability to solve problems.

Different games can give your brain different ways to think if a challenge is applied. Breeding games can help you think how to make animals have desired traits. Action games require quick thinking, whereas RPGs can let you solve problems. I believe that if gamers could apply their virtual skills to real life, then we, as a species, would prosper

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