It worries me that this power of games to teach and train their players is either not understood or being wilfully misused for commercial gain. It doesn’t strike me as ethical to train a player to want to do something that they wouldn’t want to do in the absence of an external reward. Dan Lawrence [...]
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Systemic Responsibility
August 8, 2007 – 10:11 am
This is a response to a post on Only a Game which address the concept of personal responsibility in general and a comment of mine in particular (link). I have had trouble condensing this into a focused post as it touches on so many elements of my personal beliefs that my natural tendency to wander [...]
