Gamification Links

- Gamification Blog
- Gamification Summit, San Francisco
- Weil wir alle Spielkinder sind, TAZ.de
- Gamification: Die Konsolidierung der Welt, DE:BUG


Books:
- Jane MCGonigal: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Amazon)
- Gamification by Design, Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps, O'Reilly

EightBit.Me

Introducing EightBit.Me from eightbitme on Vimeo.

Right now, it’s a location-based check-in environment. This means you check-in to various venues and can syndicate those out to both Twitter and Foursquare (Facebook is coming shortly). Doing a combination of these things earns you coins in the game. Your first check-in at a venue earns you 3 coins, second one earns you 2, etc. You get extra coins for social blasts. But you don’t earn coins for trying to game the system (I won’t go into all those details, just play fair).

via: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/08/eightbit-html5-sxsw/
EightBit.Me

Short Review from the gamescom

1. Nicht mehr als ein ferngesteuertes Flugzeug:

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2. Kinect funktioniert je nach Spiel gut bzw. gar nicht.

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3. E3 NBA 2011 mit gemappten Faces auf den Avataren, shocking realistic.

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Engineers Turn Robot Arm into F1 Ferrari Simulator

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany, transformed an industrial robot arm into a Formula 1 simulator.

Next Level Conference

Am 20./21. April 2010 veranstaltet das NRW KULTURsekretariat in Verbindung mit der Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen eine Konferenz, die zugleich Festival ist. Die international aufstrebende Games-Metropole Köln bietet dafür mit den AbenteuerHallenKALK die geeignete Location.
"Next Level" öffnet Gamern und Kulturschaffenden, aber auch Kulturpolitikern und Pädagogen ein weites Spielfeld: In vier korrespondierenden Panels mit Vorträgen und Live Acts diskutieren und praktizieren Künstler, Kreative und Kulturvermittler die verschiedenen kulturellen Spielformen und vielfältigen künstlerischen Ausprägungen der digitalen Spiele.

Next Level Conference

Social Game Design

Find here: 7 of the Best GDC Slideshows for Indie Social Game Designers - Facebook Indie Games

Mate: The Game

Mate: Savannah Conference Game (video prototype) from David Malouf on Vimeo.

Mate.2

View more presentations from David Malouf.

–Engage :: Mate: The Game – In Private Beta for Interaction 10 & CSCW

CROWDPARK - Social Forecasting Game - A Prediction Markets Game

Bei CROWDPARK kannst Du spielerisch die Zukunft vorhersagen. Du setzt Spielgeld auf Ereignisse oder Fragen, deren Eintreten in der Zukunft liegt. Gemeinsam mit anderen Spielern und der Technologie von CROWDPARK (sogenannte “Elektronische Prognosemärkte”) ergeben sich dadurch die genauesten Prognosen, die möglich sind. Diese “Weisheit der Vielen” ist zuverlässiger als die Vorhersagen der meisten Experten!

CROWDPARK - Social Forecasting Game - A Prediction Markets Game / Prognose-Märkte Blog

Adaptive Mobile Gaming: Scotland Yard - to go!

Many generations have been entertained by Ravensburger's "Scotland Yard" board game. As part of a programming lab students from the University of Bonn in cooperation with the game publisher Ravensburger Spiele and T-Mobile invented "Scotland Yard – to go!", the modern version where no longer figures are moved on the table but people interact in the real world chasing Mr. X.

The players are equipped with portable computer, a mobile phone and a GPS receiver. The GPS device provides the current location; the mobile is used for a connection to the internet. This enables to locate the accurate position of the detectives and also Mr. X in bigger intervals and on a map. The world is turned into one big game area.

The computer is not only a medium; it creates a whole new game experience since the game situation is adapted dynamically. For example when the player climbs on a bell tower not only his real sight is enlarged but also the virtual one in the game: The map will reveal more information about Mr. X position as before. This effect – "Adaptive Mobile Gaming" – is the outcome of several years of collaborative "Context Sensitive Intelligence" research between scientists from the University of Bonn and Telekom Laboratories in Berlin. The mobile game "Scotland Yard – to go!" which is developed by the students is now a demonstration of the possibilities this technology provides.

A project between Telekom Laboratories and Uni BonnAdaptive Mobile Gaming

Monopoly City Streets

MONOPOLY City Streets – Eine globale Live-Version von MONOPOLY, in der Google Maps als Spielbrett dient. Sie können jede Straße auf der ganzen Welt erwerben und im Spiel der reichste Immobilienking aller Zeiten werden.

Die Inspiration für MONOPOLY City Streets stammt von unserem neusten Brettspiel MONOPOLY City. Wir wollten das aktualisierte Gameplay zum Leben hervorbringen.

Monopoly City Streets

commodore 64 for the iPhone

c64iphone.com

Fast Foot Challenge

FastFoot-Challenge is the fastest GPS multiplayer game for mobile phones. "Hier ab Vier" shows, how it works. Fast Foot Challenge

New chapter about design issues in location-based games

Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces ” a book edited by Adriana de Souza e Silva and Daniel Sutko that deal with location-based games and urban informatics:

“The convergence of smartphones, GPS, the Internet, and social networks has given rise to a playful, educational, and social media known as location-based and hybrid reality games. The essays in this book investigate this new phenomenon and provide a broad overview of the emerging field of location-aware mobile games, highlighting critical, social scientific, and design approaches to these types of games, and drawing attention to the social and cultural implications of mobile technologies in contemporary society. With a comprehensive approach that includes theory, design, and education, this edited volume is one of the first scholarly works to engage the emerging area of multi-user location-based mobile games and hybrid reality games.“

- More about the author.
- The authors blog: MGaming Blog
- via Pasta&Vinegar