Rob Goodlatte

For my final project in Literature 182S—Weapons of Mass Entertainment (my fun course this semester), I wrote a series of essays exploring the reward systems and specific rewards that motivate gamers to play. This includes typical in-game incentives and external incentives—including aesthetic rewards like game visuals, reward trophies, and even the physiological responses a video game experience can evoke. To explore the topic in depth, I’ve posted all of my writings thus far on Why Do We Play?— I site I designed to serve as a discussion place for the topic.

The site is built on WordPress—I will eventually release the WordPress theme for free. Before that happens I need to work all of the bugs out of the code and re-design the template slightly to make it more generalizable. Let me know what you think of the design here, and feel free to comment on any of my writings there.

[tags]Video Games, Psychology, Literature[/tags]