Headshots: The Psychology and Gaming Podcast

#27: Can games improve mental health in prisons? We start the conversation by discussing Waypoint’s excellent week-long feature titled “At Play in the Carceral State.”

Notes:

• At Play in the Carceral State: A Letter from the Editor – Waypoint – http://bit.ly/2vDvFz4
• Geek Therapy Discord server – www.GeekTherapy.com/disord

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Ep. 25: Rewards are a big part of why we play games so Kelli and Josué discuss a GDC 2017 presentation on reward psychology by Ben Lewis-Evans, a user experience researcher at Epic Games, that address the good and bad rewards we see in games and how they affect us.

Notes:

• GDC Vault – Throwing Out the Dopamine Shots: Reward Psychology Without the Neurotrash – http://bit.ly/2rfHbPw

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Ep. 24: May is Mental Health Awareness Month so Geek Therapist Lara Taylor joins Josué to talk about video games and mental health services. They address some of the misconceptions about video game “addiction” and discuss how they’ve used video games in therapy.

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Ep. 23: Kelli and Josué discuss how games can be a part of a much bigger story told through different media. Think of how Star Wars and Halo stories are told through books and movies in addition to games. Do stories in other formats make your play experience better and vice versa?

Notes:

• Transmedia Storytelling on Wikipedia – http://bit.ly/2oIaPHz
• The Battlefront II tie-in novel is Lucasfilm’s incredible creative strategy in action – http://bit.ly/2oIay7k

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Ep. 22: We discuss the mental state of flow in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with special guest Lauren Keller. Lots of love for BotW on this episode.

You can reach Laren on Twitter: @CHICKENDINOSAUR

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