Plus 7 Intelligence | How Games Impact People

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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

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

• LOOT 

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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 

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

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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) 

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

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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 

• Habitica
• Habitversary Tumblr 

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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 gameWe talk about the road from an idea to the successful Kickstarter of HabiticaHabitica is very complex, but uses strategies form games to ease users into creating new habitsMany 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 peopleTyler turns a bad World of Warcraft habit into the catalyst for self-improvementGoogle Deepmind and the curious way that games play a role in human progressLinks

HabiticaGoogle DeepMindHow games spurred the invention of probability theory 

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About +7 Intelligence

+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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+7 Talks with Travis Eriksen of the Gamer-founded charity, Child’s PlayWe talk about how Child’s Play was founded by gamers of Penny Arcade wanting to counter negative press with positive actionHow the most uninteresting game of all time is used to raise moneyChild’s Play donates games because the positive effects on mood, morale, confidence, and even because it reduces the need for pain medicationPlease 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 PageThe Therapeutic Game GuideDonate to Child’s PlaySnow World – pain reduction in VRDesert Bus-the most inoffensive video game of all time from Penn & TellerTiltifyPenny ArcadeEEDAR – 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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+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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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 . . . ” phenomenonHow the psychology of arousal might explain why you play games through the night. 

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The Psychology of Video Games WebsiteDr. Madigan’s Book: Getting Gamers+++++++

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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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Music by Creo

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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 

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Serenity ForgeZ’s TEDx Talk: Video Games Saved my Life and How They Will Save YoursMystic MeleeGone HomeLuna’s Wandering Stars+++++++

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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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In this BONUS episode, a gamer gets help from the community to deal with an unexpected phobia.Links

The Reddit post that inspired this episodeThe Games Without Butterflies spreadsheet+++++++

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About +7 Intelligence

+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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Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Radiopublic

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+7 Intelligence Website

On Twitter: @7_Intelligence

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+7 Intelligence is a member of the Podglomerate network.

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Music by Creo

Epilogue by Creo is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

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