Lose It! is a weight loss application available for free online and for the iPhone. As soon as you sign on, you’re prompted to supply basic info such as your current weight, age, height and sex, what weight you want to be and how many pounds you’d like to lose per week. Based on these…
Editor’s Note: There’s been a growing trend of esoteric competitions being the focus of documentaries over the past few years. The passion that the participants have for a prize most of us have never heard about is intriguing. But the spirit of competition is the same no matter what you’re playing for. We’ll be reviewing…
We’re very happy to announce that 2 videos from GSummit are now completely free to watch on Fora.tv. These are talks from our own Gabe Zichermann and Demetri Detsaridis, General Manager of Zynga (formerly Producer at Area/Code). The presentations from all of our speakers are also available on SlideShare for everyone to review. GSummit is…
The Academy Awards are this Sunday and as per usual, people are making their winning picks for Best Picture, and Best Actor/Actress. If The Oscars and other similar industry awards are the prizes, is the act of film making a game in and of itself? Earlier this week we mentioned Clinton Bonner’s idea to gamify…
Kevin Richardson is the Senior Producer in Nickelodeon’s Kids and Family game unit in San Francisco. He’s spent an equal number of years in the animated film/advertising business, and in games. Last year he won Volkswagen’s Fun Theory Award for his idea ‘The Speed Camera Lottery’. The basic question was “Can we get drivers to…
Michael Wu, PhD, principal scientific analyst for Lithium, has started a mini-series of blog posts at their Lithosphere blog that delve into the science behind gamification. His first entry broke down the basics, explaining what is gamification, and the distinction between game mechanics versus game dynamics. “[Game mechanics] are principles, rules, and/or mechanisms (much like…
Gabe Zichermann was recently interviewed for an article by BlooLoop called: “Gamepocalypse or Gametopia : What Can Gamification Offer Theme Parks And Attractions?” In it, GSummit is noted for its success and the attention it garnered for gamification from various industries, including parks and attractions and the potential there is for merging them together. “Building…
Clinton Bonner brings up some really interesting ideas about gamifying the movie theater experience in his recent blog post “Please Turn Your Cell Phones On! – The Future Movie Experience“. There have been many different attempts over the years to make watching films more interactive, from 3D glasses to the gimmicky catalog of director William…
It’s really easy to get stuck in a rut in your life. You may want to change things, but don’t know how to get started. MindBloom’s Life Game offers stress-free, simple ways to improve your life, one step at a time. Start by picking the three aspects of your life you’d like to focus on…
The Engage Expo is wrapping up here in New York. The conference focuses on engaging kids and youth with digital games, with thematic tracks ranging from “App Strategy” to “Creative, Design, and Development”, and of course our favorite, gamification. Speakers in the gamification track included a panel with Rajat Paharia, Chief Product Officer at Bunchball,…
“How long till life is one big video game?” asks Ivor Tossell in his recent article in the Innovation section of The Globe and Mail. In the piece he gives and introductory definition of gamification and quotes Gabe Zichermann for his insights as someone “at the forefront of a new strain of marketing thinking” and…
For those of you who kept up with Twitter, you know that there were a lot of really cool pictures taken at the inaugural Gamification Summit (Jan 20), the VIP Pre-Party (Jan 19) and the Gamification Workshop (Jan 21). Many photos were posted in that realtime stream, but we have a lot more thanks to our…
Matt Murphy and Mary Meeker, analysts for the leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), recently released a research presentation entitled “Top Mobile Internet Trends” for 2011. It gives a detailed look at how social networking and the mobile web have been booming all over the world, changing the face of media…
Everyone born after 1975 has grown up gaming. And everyone born after 1990 has grown up online. Between these two points of fact, many young American adults have forgotten how to be social. As in IRL. (Or maybe it’s just everyone I know?) Sure, we’ll “friend” each other on Facebook, play cooperatively in Farmville, IM…
Ed Note: When it comes to social media, online interactions and gamification, many people often overlook how the law factors in. Working in an industry surrounded by ever-changing technology and innovation, legal precedents and regulations are also in a constant evolution in order to keep up. These laws exist to protect users, developers and business…
