Your Morals Are a Game Mechanic

Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=JUNIPERDEV and use my code JUNIPERDEV to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. Are you a good person? Why do you make the ethical decisions you do in games? I make videos on games and game development Instagram:   / juniper_dev   Join the Discord:   / discord   TikTok:   / juniperdev   Contact → juniperdev@rightclick.gg (DIRECT) SOURCES: The Expanding Circle (Princeton University Press): https://press.princeton.edu/node/19794 Inverse explainer on the honor system: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/red-de... The Indiana University Fallout 3 study (“Mirrored Morality,” Weaver and Lewis, 2012): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1... Amanda Lange’s survey of over 1,000 gamers (“You’re Just Gonna Be Nice”): https://gamescriticism.org/2023/07/14... Lange’s GDC 2015 talk on the same survey: https://gdcvault.com/play/1021833/Bey... 92% Paragon: https://www.gamereactor.eu/most-of-yo... 2021 Legendary Edition stats: https://kotaku.com/everyone-makes-the... Academic survey of player messages and bloodstains in Limgrave, Elden Ring’s starting area: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10949 00:00 Ethics? 1:42 Good For Yourself 6:46 Good For Others 12:24 Good For Everyone 16:13 No Game Is Single Player