If you live in the continental United States, winter is probably the furthest thing from your mind right now. However, if you do happen to be planning ahead for or fantasizing about the next skiing season while the AC fails to cool you down, the resort town of Vail in Colorado made a new, gamified…
Let’s face it: saving money can be difficult, especially if you’re just receiving the first regular paychecks of your life or have gotten your first credit card. The ease of swiping or typing combined with a relatively high credit limit and fuzzy mental math can add up to some hefty financial trouble, or even persistent…
Think about the last food you ate for a moment. Can you fully describe where it came from before the supermarket, vending machine or plastic package? How was it grown or raised there? Chances are it’s quite the challenge for most of us. It’s no secret that in our modern existence, urban dwellers have grown…
In the same vein as sites like Rypple and Chromarama, the Email Game seeks to gamify something both everyday and routine: in this case, your email. It seeks more to improve your performance than simply make it enjoyable. In fact, they promise it will improve your performance to the point where you read through your…
Rypple is a software company with products aimed at making a better workplace. By using elements of gamification and positive motivation they have created innovative products that borrow elements of feedback from the game world. In the forums and chat windows of Massively Multiplayer Online games, players have occasionally compared their game experiences to the…
Do you have an idea about how to deal with the piracy in the Gulf of Aden? Well, starting next Monday, the US Navy would like to hear it and put it up for a vote in front of the whole Internet. The game is called MMOWGLI, (Massive Multiplayer Online War Game Leveraging the Internet)…
If everyone can agree on one thing, it is probably that commuting is terrible. A repetitive, daily frustration. What if, though, instead of simply getting on the train where you always do and getting off where you always do, you were gaining points, both for yourself and for a team? What if you gained additional…
Education games have a tenuous history. I’m sure many readers brought up during the early days of attempts to put computers in school still harbor a deep loathing for Mavis Beacon and a deep confusion as to why teachers thought playing Oregon Trail exclusively for the hunting portion was educational in any way. Times have…
