I don’t think games have to be about killing people. Killing monsters and zombies is fine. :) Or you could make it somewhat abstract and have to react to something in a split second. Change reaction comes to mind. It has some elements of both a puzzle and a shooter. I play that game quite a bit, too.
Teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx On Dec 15, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Ulysses Garcia <birdlover2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am not sure how the genre of games are classified, but I do know one thing > for certain, there has been a lot of controversy about violence and stuff > like that over games like this, and in my previous research I discovered that > the long you are exposed to it, the more hard-wired it is going to be in your > brain. > Also, there is an upside to this. It allows you to increase and boost your > decision-making mechanisms. On a television news cast I watched one day they > discovered that people who played these kinds of games had shorter reacting > time to real-life threats. > In conclusion, violent games should not be played to any extreme that it will > force your attitudes to change, but should be played at a level of moderation. > On 12/15/2013 10:49 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> This topic has come up on another thread, and it jogged my memory of seeing >> an interesting article while looking at some other things. I find this >> fascinating. >> http://tinyurl.com/FirstPersonPsych >> >> Teresa >> >> "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. >> Feynman >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >> >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.