Game Mechanics: The Gameification of the Web World (video)

At latest since Facebook, the gameification of the (web) world is continuing its steady advance:

"Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular "Facebook Games" era."

What can be learnt with this presentation, amongst others:

• How to apply game mechanics outside of the web.
• During conception and development of business models you can be much more creative by not neglecting the psychological factors.
• That the much vaunted "convergence" doesn’t make any sense, if not from the technical nature of the problem, then at latest when it hits your wallet.

What is exciting about (social) games is that they mostly work with award systems rather than punitive systems. With awards it is often much easier to control or achieve desired behaviour.

Thanks to Florian Bailey for the video tip.

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Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, adapted for excitingcommerce.com by Jason Soo.

Comments

[Sharlotta]

This is a great article, and a great topic to explore. Thanks for sharing.