Getting Gamers

The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them

De: Jamie Madigan

Narrado por: Stephen Bel Davies

Getting Gamers will show that rather than being a waste of time, video games can help us develop skills, make friends, succeed at work, form good habits, and be happy. Taking the time to learn what's happening in our heads as we play and shop allows us to approach games and gaming communities on our own terms and get more out of them.

With sales in the tens of billions of dollars each year, just about everybody is playing some kind of video game whether it's on a console, a computer, a web browser, or a phone. Much of the medium's success is built on careful (though sometimes unwitting) adherence to basic principles of psychology. This is something that's becoming even more important as games become more social, interactive, and sophisticated. This book offers something unique to the millions of people who play or design games: how to use an understanding of psychology to be a better part of their gaming communities, to avoid being manipulated when they shop and play, and to get the most enjoyment out of playing games. With examples from the games themselves, Jamie Madigan offers a fuller understanding of the impact of games on our psychology and the influence of psychology on our games.

©2016 Harold James Madigan (P)2019 Tantor

Amazing! You need this one

Amazing audible, I am an old school gamer and neuroscientist, and I love it. This book has great examples and is very easy to ear for no native English speakers.

This Book is Amazing

If you like video games or want to better understand people who do, and if you like psychology, you will love this book.

I have read a lot of "Psychology of ___" books, and most are either (a) kinda complicated or (b) trying to shove all kinds of psychology ideas in while loosely tying them to the topic. This one is neither.

Every topic is clear and shows another facet of how video games are designed to interact with your brain, AND every topic is easy to understand for someone with zero psychology training (such as me).

Great topic for this narrator and writer pairing.

The book is fun, curious, and informed, and the narrator delivers the writer's voice so well! An easy listen with lots of "huh!" and "aha!" moments for me.

very interesting and eye opening.

The content was engaging, narrator was..meh. actually made me consider getting the hard copy

Great look into why we play

A deep look into the reasons people play games and why monetization has been changing.

Amazing

Very good way for game designers to improve their game creating abilities, planing and implementing

good book, bad reader

the book is actually very good, it has a lot of information that game designers can use and develop from, also it is very entertaining to see how we think about video games as a whole

this is just a slight nitlick but the reader is very bad at selling enthusiasim and sarcasm, most of the jokes come out dry because the reader is not a gamer to begin with

but overall a good book to listen to and a great time

Pretty Good Textbook

This book was used as our textbook for my Game Psychology class.

I read this as an audiobook, and it’s pretty funny. The text itself is filled with stories and doesn’t feel like a textbook, which can be difficult when it comes to gathering and understanding the Psyche Affects. Thanks to the review at the end of each chapter, though, I was able to understand what affects were being talked about, and it was also easier to reference the end of chapters when doing assignments.

A must have if you have anything to do with gaming

Interesting, insightful, and extremely well written and performed. The author goes through so many phsycology topics and combines classic with contemporary experiments, and give examples of game we all know.

Makes me want to go back to school!

I loved it. it was very interesting and insightful on how people are nudged into buying games and add ons. Great content for psych and games.