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Bread Slicer facilitates even, uniform, precision - cuts. Toaster brings knowledge, skill and anticipation to the toasting of a slice of bread, set angle and force to exactly hit your plate. Cutlery perfectly aligned on Placemat is rendered invisible, the Holy Grail of table placement. Teapot records the height one is able to pour tea from. “Neuroses can be explained as fake-meaning creation. Gamification, Behaviorism and Bullshit. Ian Bogost’s essay “Gamification is Bullshit” has predictably raised the hackles of a wide range of people, most of who missed his point. Like Ian, I’ve pointed out that much of the “gamification” trend is driven by superficiality. As I wrote in the introduction to Game On : …points are important. Badges can be helpful. Leaderboards are compelling. Badges. What is a Badge?
Badge [baj]: a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc. (Source: Dictionary.com) A badge is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest. From the Boy and Girl Scouts, to PADI diving instruction, to the more recently popular geo-location game, Foursquare, badges have been successfully used to set goals, motivate behaviors, represent achievements and communicate success in many contexts.
A “digital badge” is an online record of achievements, tracking the recipient’s communities of interaction that issued the badge and the work completed to get it. Digital Badges vs Open Badges. Gamification Platform. Fun is the Future: Mastering Gamification Is Gamification The Right, Best Name? Actually, yes, we do need some stinkin' badges.
When new ideas, theories, tactics and practices are created, it’s not always clear at first the value or purpose or direction they may go. Often many people are thinking along the same lines, independently, and refining the ideas. At some point, these ideas begin to coalesce around an overriding theme and a name emerges so that everyone can begin to understand each other when speaking about a topic. How does an idea get a name? It’s a good question and I don’t know if there is one answer.
Today the marketing buzz that used to surround crowdsourcing now surrounds another idea, and it’s one that is having a struggle with nomenclature – gamification (or one of many other names). I just read an interesting article from Peter Friedman called “A new name for gamification” in which he argues for the term maintainable motivation. 101 Portrait Photography Tips. Hover over this picture to pin this article on Pinterest!
This is the largest collection of portrait photography tips ever assembled on a single page of the Internet. To write this portrait photography article, I asked members of the Improve Photography community to submit their favorite portrait photography tips. What Web Designers Can Learn From Video Games - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Games are becoming more Web-like, and the Web is becoming more game-like.
If you need proof of this, you have only to look at Yahoo Answers. Random questions are posed, the top answer is chosen, and credibility points are given to the winner. It’s a ranking system that accumulates and unlocks more and more features within the system. It works because of the psychology of achievement and game mechanics and thus encourages interaction. Good game interfaces have to be highly usable and intuitive, capable of handling a lot of repetitive actions in the fewest clicks possible.
Even in older games, as in Prince of Persia (displayed above), the limited system capabilities enforced designers to come up with creative and innovative design patterns. Catherine Aurelio from Bunchball talks about... Gamification of the Sales Process « Sales Intelligence Blog by InsideView. What is Gamification?
One of the trending topics in business is gamification. If you are not familiar with the term, in short, gamification is the application of game mechanics to non-game experiences that can drive an audience to a desired behavior.The size of the audience available through gaming is enormous and rivals television as a medium. According to Forrester, gamers span just about every demographic. [tweetmeme source= "insideview" only_single=false] 65% of Xbox gamers are male59% of “social gamers” (like Farmville…) are women23% of the “social gamers” are Boomers between 45 and 65 years old. In general gamers are also more motivated to have ‘connections’ with people than non-gamers. A few definitions of gamification: A game is structured play, usually for fun.Gameplay is interaction inside of a game.Game Mechanics are constructs or tactics commonly used in games to encourage gameplay.
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