New Games for New Cities at FutureEverything – Hubbub. On the subject of gamification… | Double Cluepon Software: The Blog. Whew, been a long while since you’ve seen one from me. That said, I wanted to make some comments about Ian Bogost’s article here, and a few others on the subject of Gamification. I have what amounts to serious issues with the whole notion of gamification.
I see it somewhat along the same lines of the Tomacco episode of The Simpsons: Exec: Meet the Laramie cigarette team. This is Mindy, J. And this is really where it hits home for me. This is where the notion of gamification really lies. Were the points you got off a pack of camels, and the associated merchandise you could get with those points a form of game? But, the real question here is: was it a game? No. Were there game elements in the Joe Camel campaign? Only if you were on the board of directors of a cigarette company. It’s in that realm the I think the real point lies. Or, if you don’t like that way of describing it, Ian Bogost has a better term: Exploitationware. The Ludologist » Gamification Backlash Roundup. The Schema of Game Culture (I) – The Noise of the Street Enters the House. A Critical Perspective on Gamification. It’s time for a few stories that caught my attention last week: a critique on the logics of gamification, a highly successful student driven news site and an integration project using digital media to spark social change.
A critical perspective on gamification “The gamification backlash is in full swing”, that’s how ludologist (video game researcher) Jesper Juul starts his article on why the idea of making games out of boring chores is a fallacy. Game mechanisms with external rewards have as far back as 1971 been proven to act as demotivators, not as motivators. We need to be careful and think critically of how the emerging “game layer” (which might be the buzzword of 2011) should be designed and implemented; not just thinking that any game mechanism will make your product a success. Read Juul’s short article Gamification Backlash Roundup and a transcript of games scholar Cayden Mak’s lecture The Schema of Game Culture. Student-run news website illustrate the new reality for journalists. Gamification as a New Diagram of Power?
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