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Too cool to play: the gamification backlash
April 11, 2011… games like Digitalkoot. Instead they tend to attack companies like Foursquare, who apply game-mechanics to non-game sites and apps.
Counter-intuitively, game designers are often the biggest gamification skeptics. Designers argue that game mechanics are subtle and complex. Good games, they say, are like art: engaging players deeply and emotionally ( not sure how Grand Theft Auto fits in here ). In contrast gamification, as game developer Margaret Robertson puts it, “tricks …
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crowd, crowdsourcing, game, game design, game mechanics, gamesourcing, Gamification, Gamify, iPhone, Margaret Robertson, microwork, Video Games | 9 CommentsTeaching kids to win
October 7, 2010… sense of personal control. The activity itself can be anything from a microtask to a long, complex game.
If you’ve ever been involved in a competitive game, you probably have experienced the sensation. This is because games generally contain the key elements required to achieve the state of flow. As discussed in the earlier post, if you could make work more like a game, you would have more success engaging your workforce. Or, if the methods of Lee Sheldon are anything to go by, your …
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crowdsourcing platform, flow, game, kids, learning crowdsourcing, Lee Sheldon, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, rewards, task, workers, world of warcraft, wow | Leave a commentDo crowdsourced design contests work? You be the judge – and win!
October 4, 2010… stronger. Or so everyone always says.
A few weeks ago we discussed the use of crowdsourcing in design contests. Writing this blog – and reading the feedback we received in response to it – got us thinking. Why not try it out for ourselves? After all, we wanted to design a Microtask T-shirt, and crowdsourcing has made running design competitions easier than ever before.
Crowdsourcing the shirt on my back
Because we focused on 99Designs in this earlier post, it was a natural …
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99design, contest, crowdsourced design, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, CrowdSpring, design competition, designcontest, designcrowd, designoutpost, distributed work, MycroBurst, reDesignMe, t shirts | 9 CommentsSome work is born digital: from gold farmers to game masters
June 1, 2010… today: the latest step is a trend towards crowdsourcing, or digitizing existing tasks such as design and development, and distributing them to a global labor pool via the Internet.
One aspect of the digitization of work has received less attention than it perhaps deserves. This aspect is the emergence of work that is “born digital”. “Born digital” is a term originally used to denote products such as books and music that are created directly in digital form, as opposed to being …
Play the game of life
April 21, 2010… , with 11m subscribers, there are more people playing the MMOG (massively multi-player online game) World of Warcraft than there are living in New York City. Together the 4.5m European and North American subscribers generate over $800m in revenue each year. The North Americans manage to spend on average 22 hours a week playing the game, only 13 hours short of the typical working week.
But just as in the history of the real world, the number of people involved in virtual war pales in …
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