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UK video game publisher
Addictive Games was a UK video game publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s. It is best known for the Football Manager series of games created by company founder Kevin Toms. The company was originally based in Milton Keynes, England, and later relocated to Bournemouth, in southern England. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Addictive GamesA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Implications of Jerk’s On the Measure of Game’s Entertainment: Discovering Potentially Addictive GamesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Frequently asked questions about online gaming addictionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study.Cited 1,776 times
- Go sideways: List of maze video gamesA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study.
Online Gaming Addiction? Motives Predict Addictive Play Behavior in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
Addictive Online Games: Examining the Relationship Between Game Genres and Internet Gaming Disorder
Study what makes games addictive
Time Loss Whilst Playing Video Games: Is there a Relationship to Addictive Behaviours?
Escaping in digital games: The relationship between playing motives and addictive tendencies in males
Are video games intrinsically addictive? An international online survey
Upgrading the protection of children from manipulative and addictive strategies in online games
🆕 Influential since 2022
Implications of Jerk’s On the Measure of Game’s Entertainment: Discovering Potentially Addictive Games
Effectiveness of Self Management Technique Intervention in Reducing Addictive Behavior towards Online Games in Adolescents: A Literature Study
Vitality structures in ‘addictive’ game design
Vitality structures in ‘addictive’ game design
Exploring the Addictive Nature of Fantasy Games Beyond Skill Mastery
📚 Books worth reading
Frequently asked questions about online gaming addictionHolly Cefrey · 2008
Paradoxes of Gambling BehaviourWillem A. Wagenaar · 2016- 📕GodspeedCasey Legler · 2018
- 📕Digital DiseasesGökmen Karadag · 2020
Death by video gameSimon Parkin · 2015
Play MoneyJulian Dibbell · 2006
Level UpGene Luen Yang, Thien Pham · 2011
Panic disorder and anxiety in adolescenceSara Golden Mattis, Sarah Mattis · 2002
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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