Biology and Game: why women do not love the game - - Author: Philippe O'Connor translation: wavow Transfer: http://wavow.blogdriver.com/wavow/519738.html Where are the girls? I owe a big game, especially from me 12 years old. From the game, I have developed various capabilities, including: leadership, problem solving capacity, confidence, analysis capabilities, interpersonal skills, writing skills, team building capacity, tactical strategy, organizational capabilities, and various talent conditions allowed me Get important knowledge. I also experienced a lot of pleasure in the game, be a happy holiday, and the truthful emotions worthy of friends, and so on. In the game, I have to face a variety of puzzles, and try to solve it. This experience has no other ways except games. I am talking about computer games, including other types of games: desktop RPG, arcade, survival game (real emulation gun game), these games have been brought more than a year, but also bring me so much fun, but at the same time I also brought me a question that I can't help me: the girls don't seem to love the game like this. Of course, I have encountered a lot of female game players, but they seem to be very few, belonging to the marginal people in the overall female population, and is also considered to be "distinctive". Now I have across the game industry and become a professional gamer. This problem makes me often consider: Why is the woman in the total number of people, the degree of colds in the game is far less than men? I found that this is unfair, but it is obvious that they refuse the game to a large extent because they are not concerned about it, even hate. This is a big blow to me. It let me start suspect that the game itself, no matter what, this is the reality I have to face. I have recently seen an article on a female player publication, the author is VANGIE BEAL. "Aurora" (her call in the game industry) made a general explanation of why women homosely with the game, this article triggered a fierce argument in the female player circle, I visited all kinds of female game sites for this reason. . For the main topic of the parties, Aurora made an understanding. These solutions pointed out gender social, cultural, physiological characteristics and even chemical compositions, and this is the answer to the answer. In short, motivation VS Action (Action), men tend to act, and women tend to motivation, most games are action games, so more men play games. Another focus of other debates, Aurora repeatedly replied: Gender discrimination! Female game developers' lack of game developers, thousands of female images in the game, male-in-line communication in all types of online communication environments, etc. Female is isolated from the reasons outside the game, but it is an atmal that it is a game industry! However, I think these are just those who are not interested in games, not the reason. Her article made me have some inspiration, which prompted me to write a copy of this article. This article is largely based on that article. The biology foundation of the game is very unfortunate. In today's political atmosphere, everything is to be inwarded to the "Friends or Enemy" list, which forces people to explain their own enemies before, the same, in This is not survived about gender and game discussions - it is support for women to oppose men.
I really hope that this article can avoid going to any extreme, but in order to do this, you will have to endure my lengthy discussion about the biological basis of the game. If you skip this paragraph, you will not continue the next topic. I will try to explain the difference between men and women in the game selection. First, I will explain the biological root of the game, or people play the game's biological motivation. If I can make you confident that nature has created the game, then I may make you understand what it is determined to have a difference between gender in the game. Before I enter the game industry, I served as a game design in a consulting company, and "game" "game" refers to simulation simulation training. We design a wide range of simulated simulation games to teach management courses. For example, our contract is to help Boeing corporate design a route management game, which is mainly to train the manager to master the operation of the new route. In the process of designing the game, I have been thinking about a question: Why is this type of simulation game more effective than traditional class? In the next work, I started to come into contact with the essence of things and slowly realize that "game" is actually not just humanity. I noticed that animals also play games. If you have a cat or a dog, you will understand what I want. Animals seem to be happy from the game, if they want to play games with you, they will be clear "invitation" you. When the dog puts its favorite toys to your notebook, this is its expression. The way the cat is rolling on the ground and raises it to you. In fact, it is not only our domestic animal, those wild animals in nature, they will play. If you have a slight observation of this, you will find that play seems to be just a patent for mammals, reptiles (such as lizards) and birds look from doing each other, playing, playing each other, but also chasing each other in the breeding stage, but This behavior has a clear reproductive purpose), and the behavior of these two animals always has a clear purpose, and will not play for play. If it is just a mammal, just like our human beings, what does this mean? Nature will never do anything without any matter, "play" will definitely bring some survival advantage, otherwise this kind of physical activity will not be evolved. When we carefully observe the play activities of various animals, we will get some interesting answers. The game of the puppy includes "chasing me / chasing you", "wrestling" and "mutual competition", each puppy game reflects their ancestors need to face in the field. Take the dog in the wild - "Wolf" as an example, "chasing me / chasing you" reflects the prenatal prenatal prenatal prenatal stage, and will get survival information; "Wrestling" refers to how to chase the prey of the hand In the ground; "Mutual fighting" does not light from others to grab food, but also refer to the parties to mess with food, after all, the small pieces of meat are convenient to swallow. There is reason to believe that learning to more hunting skills in the game in the young stage, the chance of survival after adulthood will be higher. Let's examine the game of the kitten, the favorite games are "catching cashmere balls", this game reflects the pursuit of smaller body shape, fast moving speed, fleece, obvious, this object It is a small rodent. It grabbed the cashmeire to throw it to the distance, then immediately pounce, in its eyes, the velvet ball has become a model of the mouse, so this game is also a kind of hunting simulation. Cat doesn't like some games to play dogs, such as "fighting each other", this is because cat's prey is usually smaller, do not need multi-partial integration to hunt, do not need companions to help tear. The conclusion thus concluded is that these animals are to help their own development skills to address adult environments. Only mammals play games because: Only mammal's brain is sufficient to "imagine" the virtual quarry, and to imagine some of the object or similar to the prey.
In addition, only mammals can learn skills from such games, the secret of brain learning is in REM (Rapid Eye Movement. " The so-called REM sleep refers to: Mammals will dream, and there is a stage of expressive expressive activities in the dream and accompanied by a fierce dream, and even inadvertent body movements. One research results were published in "Science American" magazine, which indicates that when the animal is in the REM sleep state, its brain wave state is extremely matched to the animal in the primary fluid when the animal is in main survival. For example, for the mice, when searching for food; for the rabbit, when the predator is prey; when the cat is concerned, it means to take a small animal. This research on animal main survival behavior with its REM sleep shows that animal REM sleep seems to be a mechanism for learning, just like a football coach research event, a summary of daytime activities. But what does this mean? We know that REM sleep is a review of the activity process, and playing games is an analog training mechanism, so this is how mammals trained their own way, and they understand their strength in their hunctions, and they simulate how to dispose of training All kinds of sites that may be encountered later, these are so interesting, they have experienced happiness, just like our humans. Humans are like our pets, and they also have the instinct of playing games. We started the game from the childhood, and our love of the game never broke. Human games include "hideout", "family", "test memory". You can find similar games in any cultural environment in the world. When we look at these games closely, you will realize that some form "survival training" is hidden. I still remember my first time when I played a family, I was only five years old. There were a few girls called me in the past, and I didn't know anything about this game, but my instinct It seems that I will understand it immediately. The girl didn't spend anything, let me know what to do, my role in the game is "Dad", they handed me a toy doll, saying that this is a baby. The game continues, and a girl and I have participated in all kinds of things, she may play a mother's role, I even naturally understand the things you have to do. "Dress Up" game may be a human child's instinct learning to deal with adult social roles. The hide is another meaning. This is the simulation of hunting, and the children take turns to become prey and hunters. These skills must be extremely important for prehumans. Our current games may be more complicated, but their purpose is the same. If we can accept this fact: playing games is the instinct of our evolution, it is used to help us survive, then we can carry out the next step more detailed discussion: men and women's game tend to be different, Here I boldly assume that the difference between gender in game selection is mainly based on instinct. The girl and the boy began to play different games, the girl played home, the boy played hide, this example looks very old set, but I think no one can refute this at this point. I realized that the answer to "Girl is not as good as boy playing", "is deeply hidden in the most fundamental part of the human brain, because this phenomenon is so extensive, in various countries It can be observed in a cultural environment. My theory is very simple: any phenomenon is more common, the reason it is, the more it is. I never care about the wrong statistical reports: female players account for 40% of the entire game market. This is absolutely wrong, just look at the circumstances around you and know this according to your own experience. Women only account for a small proportion throughout the game market, and this must be reasonable. I would like to make a reasonable explanation and put forward a viable solution.
First of all, I want to explain that I am a faithful believer of the ancient biologist Steven Jay Gould. His books offer my spiritual food, which prompted me to think about life, nature and evolutionary theory of human behavior. . Desmond Morris is another source of inspiration. In his "Human Zoo" series of books, he dare to use Darwin evolution to study the behavior of human behavior with animals. His theory makes the human instinct behavior of human instinct to me in front of me. These two are the main theories of the following arguments. Human - the most complex object we can observe, essentially, except for religious beliefs). Compared to animals, we only have a slight place in tiny places. Human evolutionary history is 1 million years (or fewer), most of human (not all) habits and instincts have developed during this time. Modern human sociopes (such as living in cities, etc.) only about 5,000 years. Therefore, it can be said without hesitation: Human now has no difference in the ancestors of 500,000 years ago. Most of our "instinct" is formed by a long time evolution, and today we still have these instincts. Most of men and women, their minds, and behaviors are instinctive: hunger, fear, anger, pleasure, etc., and these habits and behavior animals are also available, people and animals are the same. These instincts are like pre-set programs, which are not controlled to our behavior, just for a goal: so that we can survive. This is also true of other animals on this planet. What is the "pleasure" we experienced? Simply put, this is a nature incentive mechanism to encourage some behaviors, because nature wants to see this behavior, so let them accompany them. For example, nature requires us to reproduce the descendants, so sexual behavior will have pleasure. In those uncommon situations, such as certain things in daily life, we can also experience subtle and less intense pleasure. For men, open the engine of the car to repair the car, solve the problem of problem computer, etc.; for women, carefully dress themselves, take care of their children, and so on. When we use a language, when we are so cool, we are expressing such a meaning: I have experienced some pleasure from this matter, even if this is usually not considered. It is interesting, in the subconscious, we are even more likelihood of the fun homoserability. Those who have experienced all kinds of things, in fact, is a chemical reward, in the evolution of human beings, the genetic roots of genes in our body, you can also think of genes as a paragraph Programs, control us to do specific things, so you can maximize our lifetime opportunities. The thrill is equivalent to the biological ai, which is different from the computer AI, and the human code belongs to a part of the hardware (brain). The complexity of the human brain is at the top of the biological family, and the back is backlit by: primate, early mammals and crawling classes. The operating system in the human mind (all kinds of complex physics, chemical reactions in the brain) have long been designed in the evolution of millions of years, and software (in our growth process) can only run in this The topmost of the operating system, that is, regardless of what software is equipped in the growth process, everyone's operating system is very similar. Nature has designed "playing games" to help us survive. In order to let us go, nature adds some pleasure. Of course, not any game is a must, nature just wants us to play specific games that can help us live better. For animals, the use of these games is obvious, but the situation is slightly more complicated to the use of tools, socially merciful monkeys - human beings.
Human behavior has more complex and diverse survival behaviors, and even men and women have different living mechanisms, which are determined by our unique lifestyle (relative to animals). One of them is hunting behavior. Meat is a prehistoric human (still is still) important food source, as long as you open your mouth with the mirror, we will find that our front teeth and dog are not suitable for ruminant chewing. Unfortunately, the meat will not grow on the ground, and they don't like they are eaten, so humanity (mainly men) have developed several hunting skills, including: throwing spikes to the target (ballistic skills), catch up Prey (running skill), identification location (wild search skill), manufacturing hunting tool (to create tool skills), place traps (trap skills), search for hidden prey (Game in English is also hunted, it is a fun word) Simply put, it is a wide range of hands, eyes, space coordination capabilities. When men are engaged in such skills, they will get pleasure (our biological ai starts working). Another interesting event is to hunt with your companions. Participating in a team will get quite a lot of happiness, whether it is a prehistoric hunting team, or a modern football team, company management team or brother. Those NBA events have attracted many men's attention. Even if they just sit in the TV, they do not have any physical activities, they can also get the thrill of being collaborated in the imagination (online games can also achieve the same effect) . For women, they can't get the same fun from hunting activities or hunting cooperation activities as men, because their biological ai does not encourage them to do this, nor will they give chemistry rewards. For men, only a member of a team is not a fun (not like a woman), becoming a member of the team and then completing a goal is fun. The action game provides such a platform, people can experience the pleasure of hunting and the fun of being a team member. This is the main reason why women are not very keen on computer games. Men can have fun from the game because the game itself is a man design to a man. In order to get a stronger pleasure, men tend to play action class games. Sometimes, this is even more interesting than making love, even if it is not, it is close. Unfortunately (or very lucky, this is mainly determined by your perspective), in modern society, men rarely have the opportunity to get hunting simulation training, and there is almost no way to do neither reasons. Meet this instinctive demand. We don't need to hunt down your meat now, and we don't often conduct combat training (the fear of fighting "has exceeded fun), and we don't even need to work hard. Sports activities are the most common men who meet the instinctive activities, but sports is only the high abstract simulation of hunting activities, and its sociality has become the main purpose. Moreover, there is too much strip frame in sports activities, which is not allowed to be, this also reduces fun. Computer games, especially action computer games have become the safest hunting / combat training alternative, unlike a lot of restrictions like sports activities, and more freely in computer games, you don't have to worry about it, because you The goal is to kill each other. In addition, when you play computer games, you don't need to deliberately wear a specific costume, you can also drink beer while playing. These instinctors are men and later, we always can't wait to hang out. The game made us have a way to get rid of modern civilization, I have to repeat it, such games are designed to please men.
Some people may play because of the role played in the nearest tragedy [Translator, it may refer to the US campus shooting], because it seems to be due to violent games caused violent behavior. Here I don't want to do a so-called political statement, the man's psychology is the fact that there is no need to have a large number of research proof to support, everyone knows: men are more inclined to fight the habit, and our game is just catering this taste. . Some men may prefer such action games than others, and the fact is that most men like this game. We just need better understanding. The medium is that the game is only a popular game, the same, the gradual popularity of sports activities is also the most recent. The reason is only one: the development of the media. With the popularity of TV sets, sports have also become a mass cultural project. The recent rapid development of computer technology has also made us more complex and more accurate reproduction of real hunting simulation, at this point, computers are more powerful than any other media. Our instinct is still accompanied by us. If we deliberately press instinct, we will feel frustrated, irritated and lost, just like you have nothing to do for a long time (I am sorry, I have a sexual example). Unfortunately, in modern society, most men can experience happiness activities and can't do anything (nor do you have to do it). Therefore, men spend a lot of time to find other forms of alternative activities (mainly human created activities) to meet their needs, and these activities look a bit more than, and there is no benefit, and there is no interest in women. This is why women seem to be insulated from games, not female being intentionally isolated, but they don't want to enter it. Puzzle Game The proportion of Puzzle Game seems to be extremely extremely extremely like action games, those who emphasize reasoning and logic seem to have half of men and women, such games are attractive to both gender, even if used It is still meaningful to see the vision of evolution. If you put two games in front of a bloody man, one is a Russian square is a thunder of God (the famous first person shooting game), guess how? He will not say that the Russian square is not fun, but he does choose to play Lei Shen, for the girl, she will choose the Russian square, because she is not interested in Raytheon. Women don't like to play games, just like they don't like to watch sports events [translator presses: girls have also begun to pay attention to sports competitions, but they are more concerned about the gods and appearance of the players. During the long evolution, due to the division of labor, women's happiness nerves (or satisfied, just like Aurora pointed out) did not link the proprietary activities of such men, but in that time difficult This is also a choice in the living environment. Humanity is just a slightly better than other animals that share space with us, and they are also pre-composed of biological procedures for survival. What is the woman wants? So, what game can also give women to the same sense, just like their male compatriots? To answer this question, you must first understand what you have to satisfy in real life, or what you can give her a chemical reward? Once again, please take a deep breath and continue our discussion with an open mind. This is my theory: women can get a sense of satisfaction from private exchanges of a social group. In other words, interpersonal relationships or anything related to this (talking, chat, speech, psychological communication, intuition, communication ...) For women, they are the most important instinct, they will certainly be from this type of incident. Get a chemical reward. Interpersonal exchanges include family, children, spouses and friends.
Women have an assessment of their own communication networks, including evaluation of social quality and quantity, and they also care about their status in the eyes of the same age and compared with communication skills. Once again, I want to point out that this is not a political affirmation, this is just my personal observation. I still can't still happen, why women will have this instinct. I am not implying that men don't like interpersonal communication or can't have fun from communication, I believe that women are more experienced relative to men. They can experience happiness from them. Evidence is also obvious, men prefer to watch sports events, and women prefer to watch long TV dramas (soap opera), which is widely universal. The so-called soap drama refers to: Qiong Yao drama, ancient romance drama, youth idol drama [Translator Press: I will modify it according to our cultural background] and so on. When Watching these TV series, it is actually in some kind of illusion. It seems that he is one of them. The episode between the quiet observation characters: Whoever becomes the next to the object; who is going to have The child; which pair of combined, it breaks up. The plot in the soap opera can be seen as a contract that can affect social structures (mainly referred to in family or marriage structure). As an observer, female audience seems to integrate into this big family. Fundamentally, the soap opera describes a full-scale communication interaction between the exaggerated large family combination (of course, it will also contact the external role), this "TV family" is very rich, it seems to be A little gods, and the speed of the binding / breakup (including sexual relationship or other). After all incidents that affect a family or social member, it is the source of the soap opera, because women are very concerned about what they will affect their own and most relevant people, and they also care about the emotions and benefits of the whole family. The sorrows of the girls are slightly different. They prefer to see "Meteor Garden" [Translator Press: I have made some adjustments in this again] A type of idol drama, these TV series reflects the social roles before marriage Communicate, and no exception, this type of TV drama only talks about the relationship between men and women or friends. Women have interactive interactions between members (family, friendship, love), and strong interest, so they always think about it. Once there is such as breakup, pregnancy, quarrel, death, third party, etc. After the event, the impact of yourself and related personnel may have. Obviously, these incidents concerned have already appeared in the prehistoric human beings. At that time, the woman could not survive independently. In the case of abnormal living environment, if they can't deal with others with others. They will not survive. As a man, women have other responsibilities, such as ensuring harmony between members of society, and for this purpose, they have developed a number of unique skills, such as: women's intuitive power - from the fine space to understand others intention Ability; woman's language skills. This is why the language has an important position for women. In the same sentence, there will be different meanings at different times, and the men often fall into trouble because of the mistakes (or correct) expressions they want to express. Unlike men, women's instincts are not depressed in modern society. As long as they are not imprisoned or exiled by the desire, they can pursue the pleasure of pursuing instinct. The woman's happiness is greatly established in their own social relationship, so she spends a lot of time to carefully deal with the relationship between friends and friends.
