Can The Game be studied?
LoseTheGame.com devised a method for studying loss of The Game, known as a Gameological Self Assessment (GSA). This involves the recording of the time and cause of every loss. A trial run was terminated after 14 hours due to extremely frequent losses and possible risk of insanity. Cory Antiel, a psychology student from New York, performed a month long study involving GSAs recorded by 12 participants. The results and his conclusions were very intersting, click here for the PDF. • Is The Game a game, a meme or a mind virus? A game is commonly defined as one or more players trying to achieve an objective, a definition which can indeed be applied to The Game. However, The Game is also a ‘meme’, in both the modern and original meanings of the word. Richard Dawkins coined the term ‘meme’ in the 1970s to describe pieces of information that are stored and replicated by human minds. This makes every idea and concept, including The Game, a meme by definition. The Game, however, is an especially
