KNOWLEDGE IS THEIR SUPERPOWER Medikidz (@Medikidz) is a global initiative dedicated to teaching young people medical information in form they can understand. Thus far it has relied primarily on a series of comic books featuring a group of superheroes, called the Medikidz, each of whom are experts on different aspects of the human body. According to…
Gamification in mobile apps continues to rise each day. #nwplyng joined the music app industry this past summer. #nwplyng offers a new way for mobile customers to engage in music sharing with a gamification angle added on. #nwplyng was founded by Utsav Agarwal, who combined his love of music with his interest in products that produce conversation and sharing into this…
At the Scottish Instuitute for Enterprise, a United Kingdom based startup called Swipii (@Swipiicard) won “The Best New Venture for 2014” award. Swipii offers a customer loyalty program for independent small and medium sized businesses. Swipii was created by Chitresh Sharma and Louis Schena. They are both international marketing graduates from Strthcylde University and received £10,000 prive to help them with Swipii. The…
It’s one thing to offer gamification incentives to keep customers and employees engaged, but is it really another to offer incentives for job hopefuls? Not according to Saul Minkoff, co-founder of Pulse Savings. Minkoff teamed up with 1-Page, a hiring gamification startup, to change the way members joined his team.
Around 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are tossed on sidewalks and streets each year, eventually filling waterways with plastic and chemicals that kill fish.Governments have imposed fines on cigarette littering, but that only works if you catch someone in the act. Chances are that only a small percentage of people will actually be caught. And not being caught becomes the motivation, instead of doing the right thing.
That is where Fumo comes in! Fumo uses positive reinforcement to motivate people to dispose of their cigarette butts properly.
Get Rewards For Going Green With climate change consistently making headlines in recent news, making efforts to go green seems more important now than ever. Making the right choices in regards to the environment can be challenging for those who do not have extensive knowledge in the area. Thankfully, developers have created a new mobile…
Sharing the Internet Love Each year the The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences seeks to recognize excellence on the Internet by awarding influential and ground-breaking websites, online film and video, interactive advertising, and mobile apps. The 18th Annual Webby Awards announced winners in gaming & game-related categories recently. The 18th Annual Webby Awards celebrated these contributions to…
Warfare, Gamified The Norwegian Army has found a way to gamify tank warfare by equipping its tank crews with Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets, according to a recent Motherboard article. The headset is hooked up to four VR cameras mounted on the outside of the tank, allowing the soldiers inside to have a 360-degree view…
Drum roll, please! And the winner of this year’s 2014 Games for Change Festival is… “Papers Please” by Lucas Pope. Yes, this year’s big award winner of serious games focuses on border patrol. But why would it be selected as the winner?
Surprisingly, this game focuses on more than just the realities of being an immigration inspector who is enforcing border control. This serious game also has a “social impact” side, which can be used by parents to teach their children three important life lessons.
Jon Shalowitz’ arrival heralds a new direction for the number one gamification platform in the world. Badgeville’s new CEO stepped into office April 7th with a public introduction on the company blog.
A company called GlassLab, a project of the Institute of Play, has teamed with NASA to create a game based learning system that teaches students argumentation, logic, and reason. The game is called Mars Generation One: Argubot Academy and is available for tablets running Android and iOS.
Online dating sites may be on the way to becoming old news. Gamification mobile apps have moved into the dating field with the introduction of twin applications, Flirt Planet Meet and Flirt Planet Play. These two new applications work together to offer the first mobile game and dating application for mobile. Flirt Planet Play is an interface where users can practice their dating skills and Flirt Planet Meet is an interface where users can try their new moves on potential dates.
Imagine if Second Life got supercharged with gamification and focused on mobile…you’d get this.
A study published in PLOS ONE, an online peer-reviewed journal, gives quantitative evidence of what effects video gaming has from a physical, biological perspective. At very least, playing video games can alter your brain.
Studying a mix of 152 teenagers, both boys and girls, testing was done on two areas of the brain: the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the left frontal eye fields (FEF). What the researchers discovered was that these areas, responsible for executive control, strategic planning, and eye movement relative to “visio-spatial attention” were all positively influenced by video game play in a significant way.
Lab Excels at ‘Serious Game’ Development Games in education are a new trend and prove that it is very possible to make learning fun. Games can help the player learn and retain important information. While there are many examples of educational games, here is a college which specializes in the development of innovative and unique research-based…
It’s no surprise that Google would create an amazing and elaborate April Fool’s joke that would seem so incredibly possible. What is this joke? Google created a game with Google Maps to catch Pokemon. It’s the stuff of every Poke-fanatic’s dream with the potential for a title of Pokemon Master, a fancy business card, and a job with Google.
The best part is: it may be only half a joke. An update for Google Maps has been released and will allow players to find Pokemon with an unlimited amount of Pokeballs while using Google Maps when they explore the terrain.
