• This week I am talking with Betty Adamou about her firm Research Through Gaming.
• What she does is a mix of psychology, game design, technology, and business that all combines and works together to solve modern problems.
• The 3 Pillars of science that she builds her games upon

Links

• Research Through Gaming
• Monument Valley
• World of Warcraft
• TellTale – The Walking Dead
• That Pepsi Ad that didn’t quite get a warm reception
• Betty Adamou’s email 
• Betty Adamou’s Twitter: @bettyadamou
• LOOT

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+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.

Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• I speak with Jupiter Hadley about the phenomenon of game jams and the world of indie games
• Game Jams
• How to get involved in making games
• Awesome places to find indie games, like itch.io
• How she has played more indie video games than anyone – but the Guinness World Book of Records won’t give her credit for it
• How indie games can explore topics that AAA games can’t

Links

• Jupiter’s Youtube Channel
• Jupiter’s Patreon Page
• Find ALL THE GAME JAMS
• Play indie games at itch.io

• LOOT

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• I speak with Kim Hansen and Kelly Wright, former game designers who have created a tech startup known as Gretta
• How games are slightly more fun than computational linguistics
• Their experience working on the Mass Effect series
• Working on educational games
• Why Myst is not the best model for a kids game
• Working on UX for Eon Altar – which fuses tabletop role-playing with a couch co-op. Also smartphones.
• Robot Round Robin – the gamified survey they use to test their speech-to-text algorithms
• How games give inspiration and motivation for real life

Links

• @MeetGretta on Twitter
• Gretta
• Robots Round Robin
• A prototype of how Gretta will power up podcasts

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+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.

Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• I speak with Shanna Zwart, also known as the Twitch Streamer Shannanina
• We talk about her video game and music streaming career
• Shanna’s history with video games
• The personal connection that Shanna has about games and how they helped her through a difficult period of her life
• How playing games online can either improve or hurt your friendships
• Shannanina’s tough love advice for how to be a successful streamer
• How Shanna’s experience going to school for game design (and dropping out) gave her a respect for indie game developers (Stardew valley)

Links

• Shannanina’s Twitch Channel
• @Shannanina on Twitter and Instagram
• Shanna’s TEDx Talk

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• I speak with Leslie – one of the current operators of Habitica – the app that turns your life into a game
• We talk about how Habitica has been helping people with everything from flossing to getting through med school
• How we wish that we would spend as much time on ourselves as we do on our avatar
• How games hold the key to so many productivity efforts: motivation
• How Pokémon (aka Pokemon) and Dungeons & Dragons influenced the design of Habitica
• How Habitica toes the line between being a game and being some that helps people be productive
• The summer of Pokémon Go
• How Habitica mixed the excitement of gaming and the open-source community with the goals of launching a successful and effective tool

Links

• Habitica
• Habitversary Tumblr

Offers

• Sudio Sweden headphones and earbuds – use offer code INTELLIGENCE15 at checkout to get 15% off

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• Tyler Renelle is the creator and co-founder of Habitica, an app that turns your everyday tasks and habits into a video game
• We talk about the road from an idea to the successful Kickstarter of Habitica
• Habitica is very complex, but uses strategies form games to ease users into creating new habits
• Many people claimed to hold the secret to effective habit-forming, but Habitica sampled from many different games to create something that fits a variety of people
• Tyler turns a bad World of Warcraft habit into the catalyst for self-improvement
• Google Deepmind and the curious way that games play a role in human progress

Links

• Habitica
• Google DeepMind
• How games spurred the invention of probability theory

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• +7 Talks with Travis Eriksen of the Gamer-founded charity, Child’s Play
• We talk about how Child’s Play was founded by gamers of Penny Arcade wanting to counter negative press with positive action
• How the most uninteresting game of all time is used to raise money
• Child’s Play donates games because the positive effects on mood, morale, confidence, and even because it reduces the need for pain medication
• Please consider donating to Child’s Play – if that’s not something you can do, then spread the word around.

Links

• Child’s Play Charity Home Page
• The Therapeutic Game Guide
• Donate to Child’s Play
• Snow World – pain reduction in VR
• Desert Bus-the most inoffensive video game of all time from Penn & Teller
• Tiltify
• Penny Arcade
• EEDAR – the videogame database

• Quora Session with Ches – taking questions until Wednesday 8/9, 4pm Eastern. That is when you will get to start seeing my responses.
  • You can submit questions about the show and anything else you see fit!

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• Dr. Jamie Madigan spreads awareness of what psychology can tell us about video games.
• How psychology plays a role in designing video games.
• How a study about memory explains the “one . . . more . . . turn . . . ” phenomenon
• How the psychology of arousal might explain why you play games through the night.

Links

• The Psychology of Video Games Website
• Dr. Madigan’s Book: Getting Gamers

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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• Zhenghua Yang tells how video games helped him through a truly frightening part of his life – and now he creates them to bring meaning to people.
• Z talks about his first video game created at the age of 10, and now, his studio: Serenity Forge.
• 5 areas where video games are transforming the future.
• The diverse ways that video games can bring meaning

Links

• Serenity Forge
• Z’s TEDx Talk: Video Games Saved my Life and How They Will Save Yours
• Mystic Melee
• Gone Home
• Luna’s Wandering Stars

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Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.

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