THE POWER OF GAMING

An essential concept, which underlines that our brain structure is always changing and howgaming comes into the picture by constructively helping in acquiring skills in gamers and facilitating cognitive growth in children.

One of the first field where AI and automated programming was utilized, is gaming,
especially in the programming of NPCs (Non-Player Characters) and how they bring the virtual world to life. Advancements in AI and its effects on other fields. The future of advanced AI in games and Procedural Generation (PG), a kind of in-game content generation technique, for which direct programmer/developer input is not required and the process takes place by itself once the seed generation point is specified and activated.

This chapters focuses on how decision that we take in real life, affects our thinking and decision making in the gaming world and vice versa. This also points on how a cascade of decisions both in the game and the real world are started by one single decision. A crossroad, as that decision point is often called.

Bringing into light the sheer scale and capabilities of what the gaming world can do, not only in terms of games, but virtual environments of massive exploration ability that can even surpass the real-life records set by humans in terms of size and imagination.

Gaming of certain genres are considered as one of the best methods to deal with stress and anxiety, how games can become the shelter which protects the player from real world trauma and how players can escape to the virtual world, when the real one is too much to handle, then come back to the real world, mentally stronger and emotionally stabilized. A substantial number to avid players vouches for the protected feeling they get, when they are immersed in the virtual world of gaming and how it made them calmer and much more composed.