Facts of developing games

[Zhanetta]

Does anyone tell scientific facts about games for brain? In other words, I play games for brain and try to train, I believe that they help to progressing cognitive processes. Thanks in advance.

[fiveworlds]

I don't know about that but they can test how good your color vision is.

 

https://www.igame.com/eye-test/

[Thorham]

I don't know about that but they can test how good your color vision is.

 

https://www.igame.com/eye-test/

 

That's not a good color vision test. It tests intensity. You could probably pass that if you could only see in black and white.

[Sirona]

You might find this study interesting then:

 

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0070350

 

I used to play RTS games (AoE, StarCraft) and FPS (Counter-Strike, Doom). These days I only have time for the occasional board game (Agricola, Stone Age, Puerto Rico, Castles of Burgundy), some poker and chess. I haven't played chess online in a while though.

[Prometheus]

You might find this study interesting then:

 

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0070350

 

I used to play RTS games (AoE, StarCraft) and FPS (Counter-Strike, Doom). These days I only have time for the occasional board game (Agricola, Stone Age, Puerto Rico, Castles of Burgundy), some poker and chess. I haven't played chess online in a while though.

 

I like to play board games with my nieces and nephews. They have to learn and follow rules, read and often orate various things, perform simple numeric tasks and plan future events. I've not seen any research specifically looking at boardgames but it must be doing them some good.

 

Puerto Rica is one of my favourite games.

[Sirona]

I like to play board games with my nieces and nephews. They have to learn and follow rules, read and often orate various things, perform simple numeric tasks and plan future events. I've not seen any research specifically looking at boardgames but it must be doing them some good.

 

Puerto Rica is one of my favourite games.

I mostly play board games online in the evenings to relax and distress because I don't enjoy TV and I'm often not quite relaxed enough after work to read. I think strategy board games have improved my problem solving ability, however, I think it's contributed to me being anti-social. Though, it's hard to determine cause and effect; perhaps I like problem solving games because I am anti-social.

[Prometheus]

Could join a board game group if there's any around, then you get the social aspect too

[Sirona]

Could join a board game group if there's any around, then you get the social aspect too

I'm not good at commitment and wouldn't be available for regular meet ups. I like the flexibility of playing online too.

[Delta1212]

I don't know about that but they can test how good your color vision is.

 

https://www.igame.com/eye-test/

 

I got "Robot." 35 correct with 6 total errors. I got to 29 without a mistake and then it took my on average two attempts to get each of the following ones from that point forward.

 

That's not a good color vision test. It tests intensity. You could probably pass that if you could only see in black and white.

 

This one is probably better from a differentiation standpoint:

 

http://www.colormunki.com/game/huetest_kiosk

[Sensei]

If somebody plays games seriously, also dream about play while sleeping. And it's pretty insane/unhealthy.

I remember times when I played 14h per day scrabble-clone. Have been playing also while sleeping.

14h with 3-5 minutes per player (*2) is enough to play 100 times per day and win.

There is needed to find healthy compromise. But then "good bye" to be in the top players.

Top players have couple seven-letters words in single game. From 2.8+ millions words database..

 

Some on-line poker players, who plays the whole day, some day go to the real world poker tournament, and crash it.

On-line poker player can play 800+ games per day.

High pro players are joining multiple "rooms" at the same time on couple monitors and playing them simultaneously while waiting for opponents movement.

Normal world players are not used to such quantity and experience.

Edited May 1, 2016 by Sensei

[TakenItSeriously]

Does anyone tell scientific facts about games for brain? In other words, I play games for brain and try to train, I believe that they help to progressing cognitive processes. Thanks in advance.

As a former poker pro, I used to play games, work on jigsaw puzzles, etc. that I found had connections to various aspects of poker.

 

I also had about 10K hours working an a suite of tools for MTT online play, so after poker was shut down in the US, I went into a pretty bad depression for a few years where I didnt do much to challenge myself.

 

One day I tried to play Freecell which I could previously beat consistently playing with a deck of cards, so there were no takebacks. I dug myself into a dead end and failed to solve the next couple of tries, having trouble focusing, a strong desire to give up, so on. I continued to fail at other games which I thought were trivial in the past. That's when I realised I wasn't as bright as I used to be.

 

That snapped me out of my funk and I first started playing Civilization which is a pretty challenging strategy game and starting at an easy level, worked my way through all of the levels and eventually managed to beat the deity level three times without using blitz tactics or anti-computer strategies. I suspect that level wasn't intended to be beatable and the next version that rolled out, cheated where an AI opponent would hand victory to another AI opponent as soon as a player win at the deity level was an otherwise strategic lock.

 

I next started working on projects, again and found a method for calculating how to bias the stub after accounting for all player ranges, in the hand or muck.

 

Since I was using weighted values instead of integers, I had to create algorithms to estimate combinatorics. When I finished I realized there wasn't any way to test my results since I had invented the method itself.

 

My next project was to develop a Montecarlo sim for a static game where the player ranges never changed, yet the deal had to remain completely random. The results matched up pretty pretty convincingly.

 

I even revived an old physics project I was too busy to work on some 20 years before, though I was formally an engineer, not a physicist.. Im used to being an autodidact but, learning all of the major branches of physics is a bit nuts.

 

Yet, ten years before I couldn't beat a game of Free Cell If I needed to. I was always a firm believer in if you dont use it you loose it. Now I don't need to believe in it, I've lived though it..

 

People are born with various gifts or talents. Yet it's still up to us to make the most of what we're given. It's not as if someone who was born gifted with rare athletic ability could expect to win in the Olympics without a life long commitment to training.

 

You don't need to become fanatic about it or become antisocial, perhaps becoming a little more disciplined would be a good first step. Jigsaw puzzles are terrific training for discipline.

Edited July 8, 2016 by TakenItSeriously