Ph.D. MA James Paul Gee from University of Wisconsin-Madison has confirmed that we gamers tend to take on problems in a similar way as scientists do. With hypotheses. If we can’t beat an end boss, we try it with another weapon, another strategy or another character. Of course we try to make it work on the first try, you don’t want to try and beat the boss forever. That is why we think about our approach – thus, we make a hypothesis. Similar to science, many games also have a goal, be it saving the world or becoming the very best (like no one ever was).
Setting up a hypothesis, of which you have been thinking for a while to reach your aim in the most efficient way – that is a fundamental thinking process, thus games even turns children into little “scientists”.
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