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Video Games to Help You Relax
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Irish game developers have unveiled their latest project, a game that helps you to relax, through the use of electrodes that are attached to a player's fingers and as the person relaxes, their dragon moves faster.
The game uses galvanic skin response technology which works by measuring the ability of the skin to conduct electricity."
my strategy? drink until i pass out. my dragon moves the fastest when i'm so relaxed i wet myself.
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betcha when they find out it uses the advanced technology of their e-meters, they'll sue.
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Seriously, I could beat this game in my sleep!
There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling!
A few months back on here, there was an article about these Germans who invented the Painstation, which offered a little negative reenforcement when you screwed up. I think a truly challenging game would be one where you had to relax, or you risked getting shocked. See how relaxed you can be under threat of torture!
Come to think of it, that might not be a bad way to train yourself for polygraph examinations, either...
They that would sacrifice their
This cool game, tranquility, can help you relax in that flowing, feeling-like-plankton kinda way, you know?
... and more weird stuff that I've found myself addicted to.
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Works with OS X, OS 9, Win 98 - XP, while a Linux version is in the works.
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"If you can get it to fly, it means you have got into a nice relaxed state," he explained. The game takes place in a virtual 3D world set aboard a starship in space. The environment is designed to immerse the player, drawing more of their attention and making the feedback more effective.
Why does this remind me of a certain Star Trek: TNG episode I've seen?
That's what cheats are for. Up-Down-Up-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-B-A-Star t gives you 25% less stress.
WHOEVER PUMPS THEMSELVES UP THE MOST goes fastest.
unfortunately, if you pump yourself up with capital letters, you encounter the lameness filter. i am staying very relaxed about the lameness filter. i too can pass through the lameness filter, like a peaceful ship passing under a quiet bridge. look at that dragon go.
...that helps you to relax, through the use of electrodes that are attached to a player's fingers...
Are you relaxed?
No not really...
zap
What the??
Are you relaxed?
No not now!
Zap
What the hell?!?
Are you relaxed?
How the heck am I suppose to be relaxed when..
ZAP!!
OK! OK!! I'M RELAXING!!
ZAAAP!!
I SWEAR! I'M RELAXED!! I'M SO DAMN RELAXED I'M..
ZAAAP ZAAP ZAAP...
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To borrow a Clintonian phrase, it depends on the meaning of relaxing.
These guys appear to be using the metaphor of the game as a way to make biofeeback (that is, the user training himself to enter a particular mental state at will), well, less boring.
For gaming, I'm one of those old-school 80s types. Get an arcade machine and master one of those pure-adrenaline-overkill games. Robotron:2084 and Tempest are probably tops for this. Lots of flashing lights, sounds, and you're totally interrupt-driven the duration of the play.
When you're just starting out, it's frustrating. When you're merely "good", it's fun, but you work up a sweat. When you get past that point and can keep a game going for 15-20 minutes, you get a hypnotic effect. Most players call it "the zone", and it's probably not too different from the mental states achieved by great athletes - you're barely conscious of yourself, focussed solely on your game, and your performance skyrockets.
The neat part is that you're no longer thinking per se, you just... umm... are. It's not "move joystick to dodge missile", it's "move this way and watch missile that I didn't even see fly harmlessly past me".
Freaky shit.
It's 7:30am I just had 3 mug's of espresso a chocolate bar and am allready eyeing the mountain dew. I have a programming deadling this friday.
Let me play that game and see dragons fly BACKWARDS!
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I don't think so. Wesley don't play that shit no more, holmes.
The psychologist Csikszentmihalyi (I think I spelled it right...) calls that state "flow" and it probably is the same that a top athlete feels. You can enter it under virtually any activity that has well defined rules, the right difficulty and fast feedback on success and failure. Check out one of his books.
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