Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Fortnite

2023; Elsevier BV; Volume: 62; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jaac.2023.04.003

1527-5418

Erik Youngdale,

Health and Medical Research Impacts

I really enjoyed playing Fortnite with everybody. I have a fair amount of experience playing video games as I play a few hours of video games every Monday night with some friends. Though I had not played Fortnite before, I had played a few hours of other battle royale shooter games. I found the actual game play of Fortnite to be fun and not too complicated. The cartoony graphics make it clear that the premise of everyone killing each other is make believe. To me, if felt more like a nerf gun battle than actual warfare, which is probably a good thing for all the kids who play. The user interface is not simple, and it prevented those of us who had not played many video games from entering the game easily and joining with the team. Many parents will likely need their kids to teach them how to play. While the game itself is free, it constantly advertises upgrades to players, which is both annoying and probably bad for kids. I enjoyed playing with Dr. McBride’s young son, and I could see Fortnite being a fun game to play with my own kids as well as a useful game to play with patients given that I had the technological capacity. There are all sorts of opportunities to work together, let each other down, heal each other, and experience loss or victory together that could be useful to talk about after playing. That being said, the competitive nature of the game, including getting shot and eliminated, would likely be too overwhelming for the more perfectionistic and anxious of my patients.