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Playing Puzzle Games to Reduce College Students’ Pressure
Hsiao-shen Wang, Chien-Yu Liu, Min Tseng
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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2022.05.006
National Taichung University of Education, Taichung, Taiwan
As time goes by, college students have been faced with different kinds of pressure. Thus, how to reduce their stress has become an important topic. This research analyzed the impact on college students’ stress and the benefits of different puzzle-solving factors in game design. By using different puzzle-solving ways, it was hoped that college students could reduce their psychological pressure during the game experience. This research collected feedback from 25 college students and randomly selected five of them for case analysis. The results showed that players obviously felt pressure relief before and after the game experience. The puzzle game required a variety of ways to advance from one level to another, so as to induce players’ thinking strategies in multiple directions to generate different conclusions. It is also worth noting that players were willing to take the initiative to communicate with their peers to work together to solve the problems in the game.
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