Currently, gaming is the world's favorite form of entertainment. Various studies have shown how games impact players' perceptions and behaviors, prompting opportunities for purposes beyond entertainment. This study uses Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH)—a real-time life-simulation game—as a unique case study of how video games can affect humans' environmental perceptions. A dataset of 584 observations from a survey of ACNH players and the Hamiltonian MCMC technique have enabled us to explore the relationship between in-game behaviors and perceptions. Here we show a probabilistic trend towards exploiting the in-game environment despite players' perceptions, suggesting that the simplification of commercial game design may overlook opportunities to engage and educate players in pro-environmental activities.

当前，游戏是世界上最受欢迎的娱乐形式。各种研究表明，游戏如何影响玩家的感知和行为，从而为娱乐以外的目的提供了机会。这项研究使用“动物穿越：新视野”（ACNH）（一种实时的生活模拟游戏）作为视频游戏如何影响人类环境感知的独特案例研究。来自ACNH玩家调查和Hamiltonian MCMC技术的584个观测值的数据集，使我们能够探索游戏中行为与感知之间的关系。在这里，尽管有玩家的感知，我们还是展示了一种利用游戏内环境的概率趋势，