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First things first. Get into a World that has epic goals with massive emotional, social and cognitive domains. Following that experience, Second Life might actually mean something. Secondly - more information wrong, have more goals that are relevant to what you're looking into.

"The way we breathe is central in regulation of attention and emotion, cognition and memory, and social and emotional intelligence."

In the survey, participants filled out a motivations inventory, focusing on the 3 main game-play motivations identified in earlier research on MMO players. The table below summarizes what is encompassed by the 3 main components of the model. The Achievement branch focuses on different ways of gaining power in the game. The Social branch focuses on different ways of relating to other players. And the Immersion branch focuses on different ways of being part of the story and game world.

The future of video games is social.

What we're currently terming gamification is in fact the process of taking the thing that is least essential to games and representing it as the core of the experience.

Another point here is the importance of "play" - games are designed to offer play in some form or another. Achievement structures are not play but an end object.

"The scientists conclude that video-game players develop an enhanced sensitivity to what is going on around them, and this may help with activities such as multitasking, driving, reading small print, navigation and keeping track of friends or children in a crowd."