Not long ago, a man named "surrounds nerve cat" mobile game in micro-letters "circle of friends" burst of red, the game is an art from Nanjing and programmers in a day and a half to complete, but no one thought, just three days, it received millions of hits. Another mobile game "Flappy Bird" was a smash hit, its developer Vietnamese Dong Nguyen guy permanently underground shelves this day can bring about $ 50,000 of income for his game, and the next frame it precisely because it so people addicted! For the majority of his compatriots and their health, the little youth only reluctantly "unprecedented."
"Flappy Bird" as a mobile game, the operation is quite simple, dull eyes of a bird, a section of the shuttle in the water pipes, gamers need to continue to control the frequency of tapping the screen to adjust the height of bird flight and landing speed, If you accidentally touch the channel, then the bird will be pitched down, the game will come to an end, and super Mario is simply a small part of the same. Is such a pretty naive, and even pictures but also it can not be called beautiful mobile games, winning the hearts and minds of millions of players around the world, even though a lot of people in the verbal attack it is a boring game, but still can not get stuck extricate themselves.
With the popularization and application of smart phones, more and more people download games through mobile phones, and apply the appropriate gaming experience, 80% of mobile game looks rather boring and a waste of time, and allows the experience of those who let them go, why people You will love these silly games? Now let us into the human brain, and see what it leads people to be so obsessed with these silly games.
Why do people love silly games?
It has been playing since the micro-channel game Subway ride "aircraft war" Unfortunately sat station, it is a very simple black and white game, players only need to escape by plane or a bomb about to complete the game, and the "Flappy Bird" similar to, gamers always complaining, these games simply can not stop. Similar games as well as "stealing food", "Angry Birds" and "small alligator bath", "Fruit Ninja" and a wide variety of similar and elimination games.
The game is not "charm mushroom" no "from the stars you" in facial paralysis as suave professor, in the end what is the reason they are so attractive? Scientists have discovered that our brains secrete more people can experience the happiness, security and a sense of accomplishment, these substances are collectively referred to as the "happy hormone" (Happines Hormone), which is the most we know include: make people produce dopamine pleasure for people to bring the passion and vitality of norepinephrine, responsible for euphoria and analgesia endorphins, as well as to help us overcome the difficulties, the courage to produce oxytocin.
In our normal learning, work life, the release levels of these hormones are actually very low, so that can help us maintain a calm mood and state. Only when we reach a certain goal, the brain will be as an incentive to increase some more happy or secretion of hormones, these happy hormones that make us feel the joy of satisfaction and success. The degree of difficulty to achieve their goals with the final goal of complete happiness hormone secreted by the number of positive correlation, which means that when we reached the more difficult task, which can produce more happiness and satisfaction.
It was with this brain "reward feedback mechanism" to help us strengthen those behaviors can promote the happiness hormone production, which allows us to stick to complete the arduous task. It is also with this "feedback reward system" so that humanity can persist in the long-term, planned activities, since better adapt to the environment.
The human brain there are several one hundred billion nerve cells, reason why people will be angry, be sad, be happy, it is due to the brain information passed between them caused. However, there is a gap between nerve cells, like two cliff in an insurmountable mountain, the mountain to deliver the message to skip past. Both joints these nerve cells called synapses (synapse), is responsible for transmitting and receiving information are referred to as presynaptic and post outstanding film, of course, is the middle of the gulf highlighted the gap. When the information reaches the synapse, the first film will create some small bubble wrap some neurotransmitters, so that information "fly" through the mountain passes in the past, and then received by a special mark postsynaptic membrane. There are many neurotransmitters, only the "Password" in order to pass on the information to the next neuron. Dopamine previously mentioned, one of the happy hormone is one such neurotransmitter. So, when gamers each purge point of a pattern or defeat an enemy, our brain will generate nerve impulses, nerve impulse reaches the synapse, synaptic release of dopamine, although the game brings satisfaction and in real life may be slightly different, but the number of dopamine release enough that it can make people feel wanted to play again. Incidentally, some drugs can act on film before synapse, or synaptic gap after the film, so that the neurotransmitter can not spread. Our most popular is a variety of analgesic agents, it is used to block the pain nerve signals to pass.
Why boring game rather than the more sophisticated games addictive?
Throughout the game world, not a lack of refinement, playable games, some even more exciting than Hollywood effect, but scientists have found that, like "Flappy Bird" this silly game, than actually well-made large-scale stand-alone game more addictive, which is why it?
Under normal circumstances, the body does not secrete a lot of happiness hormones, which can maintain a high degree of sensitivity of the brain happy hormone, can get a little bit of success given the brain reward and satisfaction, so that people have the power to accomplish long-term, arduous task. It was the drug stimulating opioid receptors in the brain, resulting in a large number of happy hormones without the use of labor, so the pursuit by many "Falls on the dead," the poor youth welcome. Although while playing silly games does not make a lot of happy hormones released, but the players do not by too much effort you can feel joy - perhaps just crossed a pipe, maybe just shattered plane can get satisfaction . Such a simple and easy to get happy, although the ratio of drug to be effortless, but the nature of those needs than trying to be able to get the thrill of success of large stand-alone game is more loved by others.
"Try again, fail again, fail but there is still progress." If a game is too easy to master, people will quickly lose interest, but if it is too difficult, too tricky, and often after several challenges not clearance , make people give up too soon. The most fascinating kind of game than make progress after each attempt, it fulfills the deep desire of people want to improve their skills, even though these skills really futile.
For example, another sought after by many players to mobile game "Angry Birds", will be transmitted to the bird over, it will leave a mark with the point of the flight path, which allows players to adjust the next game aims. Scientists have discovered that this is essential for flight marks the success of the game, it will let you know, the next game you want to try to launch this route, because you've got the experience in the previous game. People willing to study their techniques, (in reality, how to play slingshot flight path may leave traces in the air it?) Is very simple and even in real life, no use of technology - through this again attempt to make players from successful, it will promote greater amount of dopamine secretion, thereby allowing the player to feel that you do not through a difficult study and try to get a great success, it feels as if the Sundance Kid general fun.
In addition, if indulged in silly games and the players themselves qualities are also related. In a related study found impulsive, impulsivity index (UPPS out) people with higher, more easily on the Internet, video games, tobacco, gambling, overeating and other aspects of addiction, impulsivity and low index of people, it is easier to control the behavior of their indulgence, not easy to indulge in it. The reason may have two, genetic or family education. Because animal studies have shown mice are divided into high and low impulse impulsive individual self, so many people think that the level is a natural impulse, acquired its impact is very but through the interview survey found that family education and indeed encouraged kids to form a high impulsive behavior or low impulse, in the end the parents urge the genetic pattern to the children, or a child from parental education has gradually formed its own impulse mode, which is a problem, the same as sexual orientation is how it formed, academia also there is a huge controversy. However, whether congenital or acquired reasons, can not become a "I'm the kind of person to play games addictive" This seemingly righteous judgment excuse.
The scientists also found that the reason why a lot of people obsessed with silly games, because they are living and working pressure, and boring games can help the brain to be lazy. This silly game is simple, but also has a strong repeatability, allowing our brains can get a break, for many people, this is a good way of decompression. In addition, because these games clearance cycle is short, very beneficial in busy work time gap carrying a boss or teacher secretly playing, but also to bring players the excitement of another kind of exciting.
This is our daily life, popular network Divine Comedy principle is quite similar, the network has a large number of simple and repetitive musical songs, listening to it easy to produce a sense of pleasure, which is "love trading", "Jiangnan style", "fox called", "disturbed" and other songs popular reasons.
This silly game is really good for nothing it?
According to foreign media reports, the researchers in the study of what makes "Flappy Bird" and other games to pass in order to help develop a can improve memory or other capabilities, and even the treatment of disorders of the game, the benefit of mankind. This conclusion is in the University of California, San Francisco Medical Laboratory obtained, where researchers are trying to figure out what makes people addictive game, and study how to use video games to make the human brain more powerful, more flexible, more healthy. Researchers to study the impact of the player's brain through the nerves, data collected back hopes will help develop a variable in the process of playing video games, according to the player to improve performance or reduce the difficulty. The researchers noted that the study has unlimited possibilities. They may eventually be developed to treat depression or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder game, or re-dredge the brain to improve memory and cognitive game.
University of Rochester neuroscientist Daphne Boeuf Montpellier found that after two weeks playing first-person shooters, people can enhance visual attention, thinking, reasoning and decision-making skills. A 2007 study of the Iowa State University to play and do not play video games surgeons were compared, and ultimately found in laparoscopic surgery, those players than non-players act faster 27%, and the number of errors 37% less.
Above also pointed out game addiction and related human impulse, therefore, these simple little game, and sometimes can also be used as a special kind of psychological test by recording demo games was time to divide the high and low impulse group impulsivity group (in snack on addiction-related experiments used a similar method, but the game changed cookies, leisure time into a number of cookies). This may well be a way.
The scientists hope that in the future, these mobile games will become more useful, not only immersive, but also to help mankind. Perhaps in the near future, because patients with a disease to see a doctor, the doctor will give the patient a prescription, advised him to play two weeks Food and Drug Administration approved an electronic game yet.
(Author: Wang Yang Zhu Guangsi)
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