#meowjiro

[bunnybandaids]

[vozchik]

home & cats

[eriisaam]

Do it for the kitties...

[stoneaf]

ich wünsche dir einen schönen start in neue woche! ᨐฅ

[vozchik]

[vozchik]

orders that i found amusing in one way or another

[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 153

So for the past two days I have been playing Meowjiro, it’s not a long game, maybe only 3 hours at most. It’s a time management game where you work at a convenience store in order to feed your cat, who is this otherworldly being that splits off into other cats after eating certain foods. It’s a flimsy plot at best, really meant to give an excuse as to why you have all these weird looking cats in your apartment.

I actually like time management games, they give just enough urgency that you’re thinking of the most effective way to get through your tasks but it’s mindless enough that it doesn’t take a great deal of brain power. I also like to play games on occasion that have ‘mini games’ that is a game mechanic that is very simple that takes a second to complete.

But the reason why I’m writing about Meowjiro was because I decided to try and get all the achievements in the game. Since they were very do-able for me, the last ones I needed was simply ‘do this task 100 times’. And while trying to get the last achievement my brain was suddenly thinking about MIchael and Matt from Bellular News who had commented on several occasions how achievements are kind of bad for gamers even though it’s something gamers look for when buying games.

They had mentioned that achievements tend to hijack our brains because of the need to complete them, thereby removing the fun of playing the game. Because when you do anything for an extrinsic motive (such as being paid, earning a reward or getting praise), you tend to lose any intrinsic motive for doing said action (such as finding it interesting, challenging, engaging or gives us a purpose outside of a reward).

And the thing was, my monkey brain (as they liked to call it) wanted to get this final achievement even though the game had long outstayed its welcome. Like I said, the game is probably three hours long, but I played for five hours because that’s how long it took to get the needed tasks from my customers to get that final achievement. I honestly did not need to do it, most of the time I don’t complete achievements because I’m not great at gaming so it was weird that I got caught up in it.

But it made me think of Matt and Michael, and serves as a reminder that if I’m finished the game, unless I still have an itch to scratch, it’s probably for the best to just walk away.

[plattercats]

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