Yesterday I was at the Games for Health Europe 2012 convention and returned with mixed feelings. Let’s take a look at a couple of presentations on gamification and healthcare.
We need to start thinking beyond merely adding a layer based on extrinsic motivators with gamification and look more closely at what makes games interesting and learn from it.
This essay concerns an exploration about the relation between social games, meaning giving practices, rewards, immersion and a ten feet long pole. This relation leads to the conclusion that there is still a large horizon to explore for social games.
Thank you for sharing that source of the research, good read And indeed, Deterding covers the sentiment quite well. r n r nI can only agree. I 'm seeing more and more instances of people edging towards an opinion where the influence of gamification is changing from superficial applications towards ...
It's almost as if they listened to my blog post about Zynga haha. But of course I was merely voicing a common sentiment. Nonetheless, it is nice to see that Zynga is attempting to add new dimensions to their social games.
