Video games: For Stress relief
Christian Lovato
Kewa Pueblo
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Personal connection
When I was a little kid, the games that my dad and I would play would be first-person shooters. The games that we played were always action-packed and sometimes he would start to tell me stories about him and his buddies during his time in the service. The last story he told me was that he was in a firefight outside of a city, how the cannon fire from a Battleship 20 miles away, that the gunfire lit up the night sky, and how it looked beautiful amid the combat. A game that I play takes me close to the action and in the front line and seeing the beauty without being under actual fire.
Sharing one skin
While reading the article "Sharing One Skin" by Jeanette Armstrong, is about how identity is always with us. It makes us who we are as a whole and as a community. It also influences our decisions.
Armstrong, Jeanette. 1996 "Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community." (eds). 460-470 in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. The case against the Global Economy,San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club
How place names impact the way we see landscape
The article is talking about how we have a personal "place identity" which gives us a sense of connection with the land. One might resonate with the land and it makes them comfortable about being in a new place.
Video Game History
Games got their start in 1952, in the labs of scientists and, from there it took off. Games started to gain popularity when the game Spacewar was launched in 1962, which was only available to those who went to universities.
Since games are always changing and becoming more advanced there are going to be more opportunities that they can be applied to in the real world.
history.com Editors - Video game history A&E TV networks, September 1, 2017 - Last update October 17, 2022
The Entire History of Call of Duty mobile
In the start, COD founders wanted a mobile game and to reach success like the creators of Candy Crush (King). They would face their biggest task - to create a FPS (First Person-Shooter) option, and this was not an easy task. They posted an advertisement on Kings official website looking for a team or company to help with this. Finally, in 2018 they hired the company Tencent to produce their mobile FPS. The founders gave them the responsibility of creating Call of Duty on a mobile platform and they did it! On October 1, 2019 COD was launched worldwide and they received 148 million downloads within the first month. They were considered the second best in video games, yet they received "Best Game of the Year". Today they update the game on a regular basis and have included features like new weapons, the user can customize their own weapons, zombies, spins, and score sheets. The latest update got 500 million downloads and made more than $1 billion dollars. They're the King of Mobile Gaming.
TheApexKing: The Entire History of Call of Duty mobile, Feb 9, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcM16K3W5qI
Video games becoming a stress reliver
Games have been very helpful to many people around the world and they can connect people with friends and even help make new friends whether they are in another town, state, or country, you can play with them. Games can bring the creativity out of someone even if they don't have the tools or the skill needed, it can be a great way to relieve stress.
Nowadays, all the tools that you need are in the palm of your hand. If you look in the google play store, and just browse at the games that they have, something might catch your eye. The games that capture my eye are Call of Duty Mobile and War Thunder.
Dr. Kanjia, Alok, Do Video Games Reduce Stress, Healthygamer.com, September 12, 2020 -December 6, 2023
Also helping those with ADHD
Each video game that we come into contact with has different characteristics to it that make the game unique. some characteristics that would make a good game for those with ADHD to play. Every person of effected in the same and different way. Since the lack of motivation and engagement are the main characteristic of those with ADHD, rehabilitation has to be fun for them, otherwise what good will it do if the classes aren't fun and you get little engagement.
ADHD has and still is affecting my life, always losing focus with the smallest or randomest object. This made school hard cause nothing would seem to interest me no matter the subject. Finding the motivation to keep going and to keep information in my head was the hardest, but with games as a reward at the end of the day pushes me to try harder.
JMIR Serious games, Developing Serious Videogames to Treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Tutorial Guide, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35916694/, September 28, 2021
Violent games might be beneficial
Around the US many people play video games and more than half of them play games with some kind of violence in them. They can lower the stress that you may accumulate in your life, taking your mind off of things that may be bothering you. Playing violent video games can have a way to positively relax you.
Playing violent games is relaxing for me because they bring me into the action and they can hold my concentration taking off the things that may be on my mind. There are many games that I wanna try because they look like they have a lot of action in them, and I love to play game that have a lot of action in them, whether it be driving tanks, cars, flying planes, or being the boots on the ground.
An Ally to Many During a Time of Need
An Ally to Many During a Time of Need
Not many people played games before the pandemic. However, since the pandemic, many of us have started playing games as a way to pass the time and connect with others. Since not many people were out and about, the gaming center in the EU made a game about the pandemic and ways that you can prevent yourself from contracting COVID-19 and what to do if you did.
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