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NAMAN KAPOOR
HARSHIT MALHOTRA
SHASHANK CHANDRA
MUKUL NAYAK
DANISH TANVEER

SUBMITTED TO-
DR. SANDEEP SIR

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About Gaming

 430 million people worldwide play video games (~7%)

 50% of Americans age six or older play video games
 $31.37 billion industry in 2003
 Average age of a player is 29
 39% of gamers are female

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What are Online Games ?

Online Games refer to video games that offers Online interactions

with other Players
An Online Game is either partially or primarily played through the
internet or any other computer network available

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Positive Impacts of online gaming
 Enhances the Cognitive Functions
 Decision making and accuracy
 Hand and Eye Function
 Group play provides social Benefits
 Promotes teamwork and builds confidence
 Provides a fun way to stay active
 Provide a way to develop compassion
 Provide a safe context to talk about fears
 Create time and space for deeper thinking about topics
 Are a new way to experience stories

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1. Enhance the cognitive functions
The online gamers can improve their cognitive functions by playing
online games. The combination of focus and the surges of
neurotransmitters will strengthen the neural circuits that make the
brain.

2. Decision making and accuracy

The online gamers can able to make the quick decision. Online
gaming trains the brain to take quick decisions without losing the
precision. Without any doubt, you can play these games in order to
make quick & accurate judgments.

3. Hand and Eye function

It is needless to mention that, the online gamers will play their games
with the utmost coordination of their hand and eyes. Every online
game requires the players to use their hand and eye for the game to
be successful.

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4. Group play provides social benefits
Whether children are playing multiplayer games with friends or using
apps like ‘Heads up’ with the family in the living room, these types
of games can help nurture relationships through shared moments and
improve their social skills for them to social and make friends if they
are restricted.

5. Promote teamwork and builds confidence

Multiplayer games allow children to take on a number of roles that
allow them to learn how to manage a team if they are the leader or
negotiate ways to win as part of a group. The shared experience can
be a great way to collaborate and learn from each other to build
children confidence.

6. Provides a fun way to stay active

The success of games like Pokemon GO and Zumba are an example of
how games can help motivate children to stay active while gaming.
Also, the rise of Mobile gaming apps means that children don’t have to
be glued to a TV to play games, they can now, game on the GO.

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7. Provide a way to develop compassion
There are a number of games and apps that have been developed to
help children manage their emotions and encourage kind behaviour,
compassion, and empathy.
8. Provide a safe context to talk about fears
Sometimes it can be easier to talk about worries in a virtual context
and games may provide a safe place for children to express
themselves.
9. Create time and space for deeper thinking about topics
Schools are now using game-based learning more and more to help
students understand and think about complex topics to help build
math skills (i.e. STEM) or get to grips with concepts in science.
10. Are a new way to experience stories
Immersive games can help children experience stories in a more
engaged way and shape the way the story is told to spark creative
skills.

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Negative Impacts of online gaming
 Aggressive behaviour
 Loner
 Wrong values
 Impact on health
 Bad academic performance
 Dopamine Addiction
 Reduction in motivation
 Relationship issue
 Social disconnection
 Escapism and getting stuck in life

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1. Aggressive behaviour
  Every player would like to win the game and hence they develop
aggressive behavior. The shooting games will induce bad vision to the
gamers and the gamers see the society in the same vision.

2. Loner
Of course, the gamers that spend most of their time in playing online
games cannot spend time with their friends and families. If the same
thing continues, they want to be alone all the time.

3. Wrong values
  Certain online games teaches wrong values to the gamers. The online
games depict women as weaker characters and sexually provocative
characters. The gamers will take that and they do behave badly with
the women in reality.

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4. Impact on health
Yes, the gamers that take part in playing the online games would not
like to participate in any such activities that make them fit and fine.
Not taking part in the fitness activities leads to health disorders like
video induced seizures, obesity, skeletal and postural disorder, never
compression, muscular disorder, numbness in shoulders, hands and
elbows.

5. Bad academic performance

Playing online games for a long time will create a negative impact on
your child’s academic performance. The more your children spend in
playing online games, the sooner they fall asleep. Lack of
concentration will be an issue to the children that spend more time in
playing online games. Some children would fall to the online games
and a kind of addiction will happen to them.

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6. Dopamine Addiction
When you play video games, your brain releases a constant
dopamine supply, with occasional random bursts. Over time, your
brain gets used to this steady supply of dopamine, and the
nucleus accumbens requires even more dopamine release for
gaming to feel fun. That prevents you from enjoying anything that
is not as stimulating as a video game

7. Reduction in motivation
Video games have found a way to deliver all the psychological
rewards that we often seek to gain from the real world. What we
want from video games is often very similar to what we want
from life. We want excitement, adventures, friendships,
victories, and status. Games have found a way to serve that
to us with little effort on our end. As a result, a person’s ability
to engage the triumph circuit suffers when they can just engage it
with video games.

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8. Relationship issues
Relationships need work to maintain. They are like a plant — if you
neglect one long enough, it will wither up and die. Relationships need
to regular nurturing for them to grow or even maintain.
However, when a person spends most of their time playing
video games, there is almost no time left in the day to talk to
friends and family.
9. Social Disconnection
An Iranian study done on second-grade students in 2009
found that individuals who were addicted to video games
tended to have lower social skills than those who were
not. Social interaction is a skill, and if you spend most of your time
alone in your room, playing games, and not interacting with other
people in real life, then that skill will deteriorate.
10. Escapism and getting stuck in life
If you spend 10 hours a day playing video games, then there is a
chance that you are not facing the problems in your life head-on.
While it can be quite painful to do so, it is also one of the best ways
to move forward. 

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Conclusion
As you might have noticed, most of the negative effects of video
games arise from excessive use. Even the health issues
mentioned only become a problem when a person spends hours
in one place playing video games.

While it may seem like video games can create a lot of problems,
there are plenty of gamers that lead successful lives and still play
video games. Moderate doses of gaming make all the difference
between playing games for enjoyment and gaming controlling
your life. If you can address the underlying issues that
make you want to play video games for 10+ hours a day,
you can take back control of your life.

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