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Papers Please is This Year’s Most Innovative Game

Ivan Kuo12 years ago12 years ago04 mins

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.

Top Gamification Op-Eds for 2013

Ivan Kuo12 years ago12 years ago04 mins

Some of our best content has come from guest writers within the gamification community. When it comes to great content, nothing beats real field experience and industry passion to really start and fuel the conversation at large. Read on through to read expert pieces on design and deep industry analysis from experts around the world, including pieces on gamification’s future, a guide for gamifying goals, and the real effect of making badly design gamification systems.

The Best of Enterprise Gamification in 2013

Ivan Kuo12 years ago12 years ago03 mins

Happy new year!

2013 was a fantastic year for gamification and the Gamification Co team. To start off the new year right, we would like to show you some of our top posts from the last year. Check back daily for our top posts in enterprise, education, health, op-eds, and staff pieces.

Starting off the new year, we’d like to share some of the top articles for gamification in enterprise.

Top Talks for Marketing Gamification at GSummit 2013 SF

Ivan Kuo13 years ago54 mins

The gamification of marketing is an undoubtedly powerful tool at our disposal and it’s definitely needed now more than ever, according to a recent study. But how can the average organization employ some of these tactics and most importantly, how will anyone know that marketing gamification even works? Luckily, you won’t have to reinvent the test-drive or make people dance in front of a vending machine to find out.

GSummit SF 2013 will have many great sessions dedicated to marketing gamification and here are my top talks you won’t want to miss.

Achiever/Killer Nirvana in Top That

Gabe Zichermann13 years ago13 years ago02 mins

Today, Venturebeat reports on a new startup called Top That out of the Cayman Islands. The company, which just launched, bills itself as a platform for any kind of social competition. The design appears to be mostly quite straightforward – it’s a Hot or Not style ranking game. You are given two possible choices and are…

Consumer

Flirting is More Fun When You Get Cheek’d

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago25 mins

Remember back in the late ’90’s where meeting people online seemed scary and dangerous? Now online dating is the new norm and it’s meeting people in real life that seems intimidating. How do you approach that cute stranger on the subway, in a coffee shop, the book store…? And what do you say? “Missed Connection”…

Social Good

Have Fun Doing Good on DailyFeats

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago35 mins

You can make a positive impact one step at a time. DailyFeats is a new site with the idea of getting people to do good through small actions. These actions can be for your own benefit, for your community or even the world. The point being: one person can make a significant difference in their…

Health

Customized Fitness on DailyBurn

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago16 mins

DailyBurn is a fitness and health site, that tries to cater to every possible type of user and offers a ranges of apps and devices to continue interacting off-site. After you create an account, you select a fitness goal – loss weight, get stronger, increase endurance or become more athletic. Right from the get-go there’s…

Consumer

Kings of Pastry: A Personal Quest

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago28 mins

As you probably already know, the French take food very seriously. French cuisine is about high quality and small portions, each piece expertly crafted so as to feed your desire for aesthetics (visual, olfactory and gustatory) as much as your hunger. In fact, food is so important that naming the best chefs is of national…

Experts

More on Meta Games with OMGPOP

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago15 mins

OMGPOP is a casual gaming and social networking site. We’ve previously written about meta games and gamified gaming, but OMGPOP deserves a little more atttention. The premise is simple: play games, earn coins. Use those coins to customize your profile, in-game characters and environments, earn coins by reading mailing list, winning games, answering survey questions…

Health

Reworking the Fitness Game

Jeff Lopez15 years ago13 years ago88 mins

Ed Note: We’re initiating coverage today on the Gamification of Health, the most requested topic among our readers and a subject of extraordinary importance to us at Gamification.Co. Feel free to send us your article suggestions. – Gabe Zichermann Full-service gyms are currently going through hard times in the US. According to a recent New…

San Franciscans Play to Win in Yahoo! Bus Stop Derby

Danyell Thillet15 years ago13 years ago16 mins

Why waste time waiting for the bus when you can be scoring points for your ‘hood instead? January 28th marked the end of Yahoo! Bus Stop Derby in San Francisco. 20 Muni bus stop shelters were outfitted giant, 72 inch touch-screens where travelers-in-waiting can play one of 4 games. All the games were less than…

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