Post on “Inside Social Games”
I have a blog post on “Inside Social Games” discussing some of my research findings: http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2010/10/07/how-design-choices-impact-virtual-goods-purchases-in-games/
Category Archives: ::Games::
Enhancing Relationships with Farmville?
I just finished submitting the camera-ready copy of our paper on how social network games can initiate, maintain, and even enhance relationships. (Co-author J. Vitak has written a blog post […]
Reflecting on Casual Connect & advantages of being on an social network platform
Wow, it has already been two weeks since I attended Casual Connect, which was held this year in Seattle. Being in academia, this isn’t a conference that I would normally […]
Why people play social network games…
(cross-posted on Play As Life) Why do people play games? A lot of scholars and market researchers have looked at game motivations and have pretty much come up with similar […]
The serious cr** of serious games
I am all about games being used as an educational tool. I am all about games being used to increase awareness or instigate action. I am NOT about games that […]
Why should farm games mirror reality?
Another example of a waste of bandwidth and memory is this blog post saying that farming in Farmville is different from reality; thus we need to do farming in real […]
The fun factor
As complicated as games can get these days, I think developers sometimes forget a very important factor that makes games successful: fun. This post was triggered directly by this video, […]
Personal updates
I’m doing research on a bunch of interesting things; social science is so fascinating because you’re studying human subjects and their behavior, trying to determine causality and effects by quantitative […]
D. Yvette Wohn 