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On the same platforma, another thinks: ”Video games
rewire your brain to make you lazier and to make you
believe that success (a dopamine feeling in your brain)
comes easy without work. Although playing for one or
two hours at a time won't be considered haram if you do
all of your responsibilities, video games are guaranteed to
get you hooked on and more and more addicted, like any
other drug.
Worship Allah swt, work hard towards your goals and
doing good, help others, and one day if Allah swt wills, you
will make it into paradise. Then, you can play any video
game you've ever wanted on any console. You would even
be able to first hand experience the game in person.”
In Judaism the things are more relaxed. In an interview
rabbi Owen Gottlieb, scholar, game designer and
screenwriter believes that the future of Jewish education is
in games- both video and analog, like card and board
games. He states: ”Well-designed games are complex
learning systems that provide the player feedback, are
oriented toward problem-solving, often require
collaboration and place learners in a “flow” state, where
they are neither bored nor overly challenged. Learning
games are now being developed and researched by game
scholars and designers for subjects including science,
technology, engineering, art and math.
They are also used to teach history, civics and language
acquisition. Video games allow researchers to gather a
great deal of data on how learning is taking place and how
changes in design relate to changes in learning. The games
don’t necessarily need to be “fun.”
They need to be engaging. If a game is well designed, it
is engaging, and people will play games for hours.