Jamie Madigan
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. You know, gamers come in all different types and have vastly different reasons for the games they play and why they love them. From the hardcore competitive gamers that love a challenge to the chill, relaxed gamers that want nothing more than to tend their farms.
The psychology of gaming is a fascinating and oftenly debated subject, and that's what we're diving into on today's episode. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh, and joining me, he still refuses to try Path of Exile 2, and if a game involves dodge rolling, he's instantly skeptical. Maybe today we'll find out why he's so weird.
And joining us, he's got an actual PhD in psychology, has been a lifelong gamer. He's one of us and has made analyzing gamers, both his career and passion. It's the one, the only Jamie Madigan.
All right.
Oh, man. We are so pumped to have you, Jamie. Thank you so much for being here with us. Absolutely. Yeah. So just to give our listeners an introduction to you, Jamie, you do have a PhD in psychology. And not only that, but you have written several books about On this, one of them is getting gamers the psychology of video games and their impact on the people who play them.
And then you had the engagement game, which is why your workplace should look more like a video game.
Yeah, that's a good read. And then most recently, the psychology of Dungeons and Dragons. I am a huge D&D fan, as are many of our listeners. Amazing, yes. And not only that, but you also have a podcast that is the psychology of video games.
Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
That's a long time. It takes a certain dedication, a touch of crazy, and a lot of passion to do that for this long. We've been doing this for, I think we're getting close to five years now. Yeah? Yeah. And it's been a blast, but there's definitely some work involved there as well.
There you go. It's a blog. Yeah, exactly. You got to make it official sounding. Is Blogspot even around anymore? Probably. Somebody probably gobbled them up. Yeah. I used to have a bunch of friends that were like, hey, I have a blog. Check it out, everybody. And then everybody would follow each other's blogs on Blogspot.
Wow.
That's before they made it easy for everybody. Exactly.
We have a website that's easy to update, and we don't remember to update that. Well, listen, Jamie, it's awesome to have you with us. We're really excited to pick your brain about some of the topics on gamers and gamer behavior. We're really just trying to figure out how Ryan's brain works, honestly. But let's touch on the really important stuff first, and that's that you are a gamer at heart.
Have you always been a gamer?
People have heard me tell the story of going to Aladdin's Castle in my mall. And man, we literally just did an episode on the... it was kind of nostalgia based in arcades. It was one of those things where it's like things that just don't exist anymore in gaming and arcades were one of those, uh, slap that corner on the, on the top, right.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah. I've told the story of the, uh, dark shady corner of my local seven 11, uh, putting more money into street fighter too, than I can remember as a kid. So, uh,
Oh, my God. Anywhere that had one. It was great. If they had an arcade machine that you could walk to, you were like, dude, I just found 50 cents. I know where I'm going. Let's go.
wherever it's at you're you're in good company jamie because i think you and i are probably pretty close in age ryan a little bit younger but uh he he caught the tail end of the uh the arcade craze there as well so yeah so it's just kind of a pastime and a habit that i never gave up i just kind of clung on to it to one degree or another and until like earlier today like right before we recorded yeah there you go
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