Hidden Object Games: Your Brain's New Best Friend - How Gaming Helps
13When people see hidden object games, their first thought may be that they're not complex or just a way to distract someone for a few minutes. What if I told you there was a lot more to them than a time sink? That design and careful planning goes into many hidden object games? What's the connection between these games and classic point and click titles? Let's find out!
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Cozy Games
https://youtu.be/EehWQ5_TAiY
Inattentional and Change Blindness
https://youtu.be/PLxHrZY1TJA
00:00 Intro
00:45 Gameplay
05:46 Mechanics
08:13 Brain Benefits
12:26 Negatives
13:49 Positives
16:05 Conclusion
Video Assets:
Game footage personally captured. Gameplay included:
Faircroft's Antiques (Nintendo Switch), Crystals of Time (PC), Time Mysteries 3: The Final Enigma (PC) and Sherlock Hidden Match-3 Cases (Android)
Video assets:
Where's Wally
By http://waldo.wikia.com, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid =23173518
The psychological impact of playing hidden object games
Aridey179, Jun 05 2023
https://www.astu.life/blog/the-psychological-impact-of-playing-hidden-object-games
Hidden Object Games: Analysis, History, and Creation Process
Voki Games
https://vokigames.com/en/hidden-object-games-analysis-history-and-creation-process/
Hidden Object Games Are Mindless Fluff, And That's Why I Love Them
Mike Fahey, May 1 2016
https://kotaku.com/hidden-object-games-are-mindless-fluff-and-thats-why-i-1774145603
Video game culture owes a lot to hidden object games
The history and evolution of the genre
Nicole Carpenter. Oct 5 2021
https://www.polygon.com/features/22708672/hidden-object-games-history-folks-ravenhearst-mystery-case-files
Monkey island logo
Lucas Arts - Selber vektorisiert von http://home.comcast.net/~ervind/milogo.html / farben von http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9734/cmib1000.jpg / http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=195492, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37718783
Broken Sword logo
Revolution Software - Kickstarter, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47412980
Kings Quest logo
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/1/11/King%27s_Quest_logo.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20191223223512, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48828114
Gabriel Knight logo
Sierra On-Line, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130938440
Sierra 3D logo
sierra.com, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43504054
Lucasarts logo
The logo may be obtained from LucasArts adventure games., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5100266
Additional information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_object_game
Heuristics definition
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/heuristics.asp#:~:text=A%20heuristic%20is%20a%20mental,or%20solutions%20to%20complex%20problems.
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We Dance
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