CYBERPSYCHOLOGY & BEHAVIOR Volume 9‚ Number 6‚ 2006 © Mary Ann Liebert‚ Inc. Rapid Communication Motivations for Play in Online Games NICK YEE ABSTRACT An empirical model of player motivations in online games provides the foundation to understand and assess how players differ from one another and how motivations of play relate to age‚ gender‚ usage patterns‚ and in-game behaviors. In the current study‚ a factor analytic approach was used to create an empirical model of player motivations. The analysis
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Theses and Projects Student Works 4-1-2012 Computer Game Addiction and Emotional Dependence Amy W. Poon Trinity College‚ amypoonthesis@gmail.com Recommended Citation Poon‚ Amy W.‚ "Computer Game Addiction and Emotional Dependence". Senior Theses‚ Trinity College‚ Hartford‚ CT 2012. Trinity College Digital Repository‚ http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/253 Running Head: COMPUTER GAME ADDICTION Poon 1 Computer Game Addiction and Emotional Dependence Amy Poon Trinity College
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“Erik died April 21‚ 2010 from the Choking Game. He was a normal‚ healthy 6th grader at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica‚ California - an "A" student‚ avid athlete and boy scout. His dream was to go to West Point‚ enter the military and then law enforcement. He was the opposite of a youth "at risk". Credible evidence indicates that Erik’s first exposure to the choking game was during school the day before he tried it at home and died” (Erik’s Cause‚ 2012). This unfortunately is the story of
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The Tainted Record” He has it all: the fame‚ the fortune‚ and the fans. Kobe Bryant has anything and everything any living person could want‚ and as a former NBA champion‚ he even has arguably more athleticism than most people out there. However‚ even through his NBA championships and his MVP awards‚ many people tend to look at Kobe in a very negative way; almost look down on the star for one single occurrence. This may seem harsh‚ but there is indeed a logical explanation to this seemingly pessimistic
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My First Cricket Game Cricket is the second most popular game in the world after soccer. Cricket is older than baseball and football. Cricket was seen played by two brothers first in England. Cricket is my favorite sport. When I was in 8th grade I played my first state level cricket match. At that time my coach underestimated me and put me as a 12th player in the game as fielder on Long off position which is equal too right fielder in the game of baseball but not as a hitter which I am really
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Censoring Video Games Carlos Martinez HIS220-015 American Civilization March 16‚ 2014 Instructor Melissa Davis Censoring Video Games The on-going debate of power of state government vs. the power of federal government has existed since the Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution came into existence. The effects of this debate have affected the video game industry today by the amount of power and censorship a state has over the video game industry. In 2011‚ the
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Why would a reformer never change his or herself? In "Sponono"‚ a short story by Alan Paton‚ the main character Sponono never learned to change his ways because he believed forgiveness always would be the solution when someone misbehaved. Even though he lost all his freedom after he stole the stone‚ Meneer still gave him many opportunities for him to make amend. According to Sponono‚ authorities such as Meneer should always forgive others. When Sponono and Tembo got into a fight‚ Sponono insisted
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TEXT: Macbeth AUTHOR: William Shakespeare Ambition. A strong desire to do or achieve something. You could argue that some people are more ambitious than others‚ some have a lot of ambition and some very little. Ambition can be both positive and negative within in our society. After reading the Play Macbeth my eyes were opened the negatives ambition can have on individual’s which then occasionally come to effect those around them. In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare
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BE Information Technology Game Architecture & Programming Core Design: What is a Game Games are not Everything Game Means Game Play Creating Game Specs Example of Game Specs Initial Design: The Beginning Hardware Abstraction The Problem Domain Thinking in Tokens Use of Technology: The state of Art Blue sky Research: Reinventing the Wheel Use of Object Technology Building Bricks: Reusability in Software Initial Architectural Design: The birth of Architecture The Tier System Architecture Design Development:
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IT in the Video Game Industry Emanuel Ultreras BUS 381 Instructor: P. Witman October 20 2011 Fall 2011 Video Games were once a simple simulation of pong using two lines and a dot for imaging. They were played and mastered by a minority group of individuals most commonly referred to as “nerds”. Since those days in 1975 the video game industry market has gone through an exponential growth. With the revolutionary changes in technology and the social changes in product demand the
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