Maybe you could elaborate a bit on your assumptions, and ask a more specific question? Why do you think the urge to make video games would be irresistible? Are

Maybe you could elaborate a bit on your assumptions, and ask a more specific question? Why do you think the urge to make video games would be irresistible? Are you thinking about the goal of using games in research, or thinking of how much fun you have playing games? Do you feel like games are the best vehicle for research, or are you asking whether games are more fun to make than surveys or user studies? Having been a professional game developer and an occasional academic researcher, I can safely say that game dev isn’t always fun, and wouldn’t always be a good idea for research. There are kinds of CS research that aren’t applicable to video games. There are people who don’t necessarily enjoy video games. There are ways to have fun and make money outside of games. Games take much longer to create than some kinds of user studies. I think there are a lot of reasons…