David Perry: Are games better than life? Mentions of Lee Sheldon’s Game Design Class « Gaming the Classroom. Jesse Schell: When games invade real life.
Driving User Behavior with Game Dynamics. Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world. SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck. Some companies keep a playbook of product tips, tricks and trade secrets. Zynga has an internal playbook, for instance, that is a collection of “concepts, techniques, know-how and best practices for developing successful and distinctive social games”. Zynga’s playbook has entered the realm of legend and was even the subject of a lawsuit.
SCVNGR, which makes a mobile game with real-world challenges, has a playdeck. It is a deck of cards listing nearly 50 different game mechanics that can be mixed and matched to create the foundation for different types of games. Rght now, that should be a lot of people. SCVNGR’s playdeck tries to break down the game mechanics into their constituent parts. SCVNGR Game Dynamics Playdeck Guide To This Document: This list is a collection of game dynamics terms, game dynamics theories that are interesting, useful and potentially applicable to your work here at SCVNGR. 1.
Definition: A virtual or physical representation of having accomplished something. 2. 3.