Games For Health: Neils Clark On Moving Beyond ‘Game Addiction’

[The inestimable Kyle Orland was kind enough to attend the Games For Health conference in Baltimore late last week for Gamasutra & friends, and took a lot of fascinating lecture notes we’re writing up - here’s our buddy Neils Clark discussing game addiction, for starters.]
Following his latest Gamasutra feature on the subject, writer and researcher Neils Clark spoke at the ongoing Games for Health conference in Baltimore on game addiction.
In his talk at the conference, he covered the perceived problems, a run-down on why people might get addicted, and some proactive measures that developers can use to combat addictive behavior in the future.
“You could say that game addiction is all a joke… or at least based on one,” said Clark. In 1995, he explained, internet addiction disorder (IAD) became “official,” and that eight item criteria written 13 years ago is now the standard for online game addiction understanding.
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