There are lots and lots of interesting blogs about game design on the Internet. It is hard to choose the most interesting one, so why not choose the most intersting posts to talk about?! And some, like Mike Darga, do have a bunch of those. Take the below example:
“In a brain imaging study of the prisoner’s dilemma, Jim Rilling, a postdoctoral student in my department, found that parts of the striatum were activated when people cooperate. Given the close relationship of the striatum with reward and action, he naturally concluded that social cooperation is rewarding to the human brain. But it was not the act of cooperation alone that activated the striatum; it was mutual cooperation.”
Read more: Mike Dargas Game Design Blog: Prisoners Dilemma, The Striatum, And The Dragonmaw Shinbones.
