Spreadsheets, a new app for your iPhone, is helping you add that little extra somethin’ to your glamorous or not so glamorous sex life because who doesn’t want to know how many thrusts they can perform in an hour?
January on the upside-down part of the world ushers in the annual Sydney Festival – an amazing program of over 100 events and over 1000 artists across dance, theater, music, visual arts, talks, film and more. A bright yellow balloon is the Festival’s watermark, and it’s well-chosen – Sydney Festival is there to be shared, to…
There has been an influx of gamified fitness-based apps in the last year, all focused on helping users to lose weight, be healthier, live happier. Fleetly is a Canadian site that claims to make fitness “simple, friendly and fun.” Similar to sites like DailyBurn and RunKeeper, Fleetly uses social competition to motivate users and build…
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…
Though we usually don’t discuss capital-G-Games at the Gamification Blog, sometimes the social/political effect of those games can be worth noting. Few titles have been as successful and addictive as iOS game Angry Birds, and unlike banal “game satire”, AB has affected enough people worldwide to warrant comedic spoofs. I think it’s a sign you’ve…
