Game Experiment: Beta

No, absolutely No. I've been playing games since 1989 and I don't see anything as just rectangles. I see things/objects absolutely as they appear to be in the game. The fact that someone sees 2D/3D models as anything else than they what appear to be in a game indicates a mental disorder. In this game, the animals were easily identified, but the vehicles were not. There were some pictures that seemed to be neither, but I was still forced to choose between one because you told me of the time restraint beforehand, bad move. There should have been a 'neither' option. I'm not sure what you hope to get out of this 'experiment' but your method of test, to me, tells me that you haven't thought this through, and should go back to the drawing board.

There was a driving part? When was that? I just got 3 minutes of loading time to match pictures for 30 seconds.

Good luck with analysing the data

Also, your study would probably benefit from some kind of normal control. People should be able to pass the test before and after the driving minigame, to compare results. That way your test would be more robust and less likely to fail for certain kind of people (like a car dealer, which would probably recognize cars faster than other people).

Dear dev, I really think that your experiment is biased. The fact that it takes more time to analyse and respond to the picture of a technological artifact (vehicle) than a natural object (animal) can easily be explained by other means than some sort of cognitive shortcut induced by videogames usage. I mean, we are biological beings to start with. Evolution made us able to quickly react to *natural* threats like wild animals (eg. wolves, dogs). That alone could certainly explain why people react faster to these kind of pictures. I suggest you replace animal pictures with something equivalent to vehicles in terms of cognitive complexity. Like, I dont know, computers?