An Antidote to Video Game Play Are you frustrated by seeing your kids or grandkids always facing a screen? Do you feel impotent to change their amount of game play? Do you fear their personality is dying on the vine? Are you looking for simple conversational segues that will generate a warm, interesting conversation with… Continue reading
Post Category → Care and Concern
Be sure to encourage the fruits of the Spirit outside of video gaming, because you will rarely find them within video gaming! Care and compassion, courtesy and respect, peacefulness and gentleness are not ESRB ratings!
The ABCs of NPCs
Have you seen the meme on TikTok in which unsuspecting strangers on the street are treated like NPCs? NPCs—Non-Player Characters—are computer-led characters in video games that serve to assist a player (a PC, or player character; a real life player). One way is by giving him hints about the next step in his quest. NPCs… Continue reading
Pressing the Reward Button for Positive Feedback: Part 2
In a similarly named post, I mentioned the repetitive, intangible rewards children “earn” through playing video games. Their desire for positive feedback and rewards becomes incited to the point of obsession. What if, instead, they became more interested in gaining positive feedback from following God and engaging with the people God made for that purpose? It is… Continue reading