How games affect us

Level 3 games design

How do games affect our lives?

gaming affects us in two different ways both positive and negative and i will be talking about both of them.

Positive

1) There are many ways that games affect us positively for example scientists have shown that gamers have a better reaction time than other people the test they did was they put up words on a screen for a tenth of a second and then they pointed an arrow to a letter and the people had to say what letter it was and the test shows that gamers where quicker. This is the article i read to get my information

According to the study's results, delays in decision-making ranged from 13 milliseconds to 2.5 seconds. Both gamers and non-gamers experienced a rapid decay in memory of where the letters had been, but one thing was for sure -- gamers were quicker to the draw than non-gamers at every time interval.
I got this from: http://www.dailytech.com/Study+Gamers+Have+Better+Visual+DecisionMaking+Skills+Than+NonGamers/article31748.htm#sthash.4aC1zEwl.dpuf

2) Some games can make people become more social than non gamers but they are only social online and behind a screen but programs like Skype, Team speak and Discord can make it so they can talk with their friends online and while playing games this can make it so gamers are more comfortable around people.

3) There are many games that can help you in life for example Brain Training can help you with your studies because it has games that include solving maths problems and also games that can help you memories things.

Negative

1) One of the negative ways that games affect people is it can cause violence because of games like GTA where you run around and steal, kill and brake the law, if a child plays a game like that then they could grow up to be violent or worse they could become a criminal and this can also affect older people in the same way if they are not careful.

2) Some games like Mirrors edge can cause some damage to children because they could try to do what they do in the games like trying to run up a wall in this case and so many games can be dangerous. Shooter games are another one that can be bad for children because if i child plays call of duty a lot then they could think that it is like real war when it is not and they could also think they if they die in war then they would just re-spawn but that is not the case.

Both

Games can be both good and bad in some ways because it depends on what type of game you play for example games could keep you out of gangs and can stop you from doing the wrong thing or something that you will regret but at the same time some games can persuade you to join gangs and do the wrong thing and so it depends on what type of games you play and what games affect you in different ways.

Conclusion

My conclusion is that games can be both good and bad it depends on what you play and so if you play the right games like Brain Training then it can help you in life and it could be fun while doing it but if you play games that show violence then you could go down the wrong path in life and it could affect you negatively when you get through life.