The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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Counting gaming hours is like counting calorieseasy to track, but it won't tell you whether your diet is healthy. What really matters is nutrition: what, when, and why you play.This session introduces the University of Oxford's first-of-its-kind dataset tracking 3 million hours of multi-platform gaming, paired with 50k+ wellbeing surveys. Drawing on this unprecedented evidence, Nick shares three "core ingredients" of a healthy gaming diet:Timing: Why late-night sessions affect only certain people's sleepCoping: How players use games after difficult daysand when this becomes riskyVariation: The benefits of switching games more oftenThe talk also explores how "nutritional needs" change across the lifespanfrom social teens to caregiving adults to older players rediscovering retro classics.Finally, Nick explains how researchers and the private sector can become collaborative "gaming dietitians" instead of offering generic advice, and how others can use the Oxford dataset.
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