“Make love games, not war games” was the theme for most of the day at GDC Day 2. Although many speakers and companies were a part of the Games for Change track, a few of them stuck out more than others. Lincoln Brown of Sojo Studios (the creator of Wetopia) was definitely one of those…
Part V: Gamification in Action This is the fifth part of an ongoing series on the role of gamification in modern education by Andrew Proto. If you missed the previous articles, catch up with “Part I: the Unique Obstacles Teachers Face“, “Part II:Technology’s Role in a Gamified Classroom“, “Part III: The Importance of Motivation“, and…
This year’s SxSW has been even more festive than years past, with the alternating rain and sun driving social media hordes in and outdoors over the weekend. In between bouts of over-drinking, endless parties, sponsored taco trucks and coffee “scrums”, there were some interesting sessions at the conference on the topics of gamification and engagement….
This week in the Gamification Roundup, we got a happy union of technology and gamification. BadgeVille has released a mobile SDK for their gamification platform. City Peaks uses RFID sensors to track workers’ stair ascents up buildings and AutoTutor is doing some impressive user analyzation to create customized teaching content for students. Top it all…
This week on the gamification GBase we’ve added: Achivy – A social media achievement aggregator BlogMutt – A crowdsourced blog writing service Plantville – A plant manager simulator We want you in the GBase too! Whether it’s a company you know of or even your own company feel free to add it to our GBase.
I can’t resist a documentary about competitive subcultures, like the amazing Word Wars and Wordplay – docs about Scrabble and crossword puzzles, respectively. Even better when I come across one that is both game-oriented and competitive. The excellent documentary, Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story ably satisfies both requirements – and then some. Like many…
In today’s feature of GSummit 2012 speakers is Karsten Januszewski. Karsten is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. He is, at heart, a developer. He’s been writing code since he was 12 years old and been making a living as a software engineer for the last 15 years, with Microsoft for the last 9 years. He’s…
Dopamine Inc. Designs and Builds Revolutionary Live Infographics Platform by Justin Schier, Chief Creative Officer, Dopamine Inc. The February 2012 Social Media Week conference was recently held in 12 cities worldwide, bringing together 36,000 attendees in over 1,000 individual events. Social Media Week organizers Crowdcentric estimate that the event reached hundreds of thousands of people…
For better or worse we will be seeing gamification used by politicians during this election year and in the future. The political arena comes with a natural level of competition just like any popular game. By deliberately offering politics ideals in the form of a fun engaging game, politicians can target gamers to support them in elections…
When you see a 20×8 foot metal board, you’re probably thinking like me…that Tyler Perry may one day have a zombie themed pizzeria with a coinciding game–the more zombies you kill on screen, the more starving people (in real life) you can feed. This concept, a sure winner, was imagined using a gamified ideation tool…
Mario Herger of Gamifcation-Enterprise and SAP recently gave a workshop in which he and a couple other SAP employees thought of some new applications for gamification. One SAP employee blogged about how his group came up with a way to gamify solutions for problems. One issue they worked on was how to motivate diabetics to do…
This week on the Gamification Roundup we have gamification enabling the opportunity to improve in a variety of ways. Gigya, which was once a widget company, has turned into a integrative social platform solution and now reaches a monthly user base of over 1 Bn. Prescription only iPad games have been developed for improving visual…
Marriage is a beautiful thing…so is the open bar at the wedding. I was at a wedding this past weekend in Long Island (Congrats again Mara & Andrew!!) where we played a little game at the table–we’ll call it gamification of the wedding dinner table. While everyone was sitting down before the salad was served,…
Hello GCo Readers! This news will be particularly interesting to our European-based readers: On March 14, 2012, Future Human will be holding a gamification event at The Book Club and will be featuring a slew of drinks, games, discussions, and presentations. There will also be featuring three guest speakers: Adrian Hon – the co-founder of Six To Start, Louise Downe – senior…
