Gaming for Money

Does she make you think of me?

Well, sort of.

Yesterday I went into the city to complete the first part of my paid Guild Wars study. I didn't sign a nondisclosure agreement or anything, so I'm pretty sure I'm free to talk about what I like. (In fact, I know they are looking for more participants so if you want to make $110 for traveling to Arlington for about a 30 minute session and then playing Guild Wars or Aion for one hour, let me know.) Anyhoo, the study, from what I can make of it seems pretty cool. They want to see if it's possible to discern information about players (gender, age, social status, etc.) based on how we make and use our Avatars.

So the trip into Arlington was the toughest part of the whole ordeal yesterday. Otherwise, I just watched a 10 minute intro video, learned how to install the recording program on my laptop and how to save the file to send results back in, and filled out two paper personality tests (wish I had the results).

I'll be doing my hour-long play session tomorrow night with some old GW friends I'm super psyched to reacquaint with. If you play GW and you want to say hi, look for me.

Anyway, all that yesterday earned me some money. And soon, I'll have $110 plus contribute to science. Woo yeah, life is pretty cool.