{"id":1611,"date":"2011-02-01T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T15:50:55","slug":"learning-farmville-learning-game-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/learning-farmville-learning-game-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Farmville, Learning Game Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"

As all Farmville-Lovers in my neighbourhood already know (because Farmville makes sure you socialize) – I am evaluating the great game Farmville now. <\/p>\n

\"farmville\"To learn how to get rid of it, once I want to in the future, I googled for “Quit Farmville”. Amanda Farrell posted some 10 rules there about how to quit<\/a>. Quite interestingly, I already found the game mechanics to be seducing, and I reacted by looking for stuff that grows for many days and has a good return-of-invest (like peach trees…). <\/p>\n

Amanda has similar observations, but it seems I found the keys after 60 minutes of gametime. Well, of course some years of real-time strategy gaming may help to learn a game. <\/p>\n

And most important: this whole experiment reminds me a lot of my Ultima Online addiction which I nourished sometimes around 1997-2000 while I studied Information Science. Quitting Ultima was an amazing experience. Amanda’s blog post contains the same strategies I found back then for myself: learn the effectiveness of the game and the motivation and use it in the real world<\/b>.<\/p>\n

going back to help Ingrid’s farm…for science and to spend quality time on the couch together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As all Farmville-Lovers in my neighbourhood already know (because Farmville makes sure you socialize) – I am evaluating the great game Farmville now. To learn how to get rid of it, once I want to in the future, I googled for “Quit Farmville”. Amanda Farrell posted some 10 rules there about how to quit. Quite … <\/p>\n

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