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Game inspired? Hell yeah!
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication [Official Music Video]
Universal Theme Park in Orlando
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Forget privacy, we have your fingerprint connected to your credit card information… we need no more… 😉
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Whip Will!
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I ran into picture I took on my vacation in 2010 in Tampa. Check out this streetname…’Whip poor Will’… it’s sad and funny at the same time!
A tipical ‘Friday-Fun’ picture… one day early…
[and totally off-topic I know]
Bart
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Dragon Collection on Gree played by 8 million people!
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You have to watch this video twice I guess (if only to understand the great narrator… in Japanese), but I read a news item last week that Konami, one of the bigger publishers in the world with games like This is Football, ended this fiscal quarter with a good profit thanks to their social game Dragon Collection. Now I had never heard of this game, but I read on Konami’s website that – originally – it’s a card game (like Heroes of Might and Magic and such). Apparently these card games (like Pokemon) are very popular in Asian countries. So popular that 8 million people in Asia play the digital version of the game (social game if you like)! To me the game looks like a children’s card game that you can collect with a bag of chips, but apparently I should still not underestimate the power of playing cards!
Gree is a social gaming site in Japan and Asia.
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GetGlue – Gamification or just Badges…?
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Do you guys know GetGlue? I saw a friend of mine was using it (on Facebook). It’s another example of ‘gamification’ or rather ‘badgification’. This tool rewards you for sites you visit, books and movies you buy, etc. It’s a pity most gamification concepts don’t come across just rewarding people with points and badges. They forget that in a game people also have to make sacrifices and put effort in to things before actually being rewarded. They have to put lives at stake (!) to achieve their goals, for instance saving the princess from a barrel-throwing monkey, with only 2 lives left…
In Foursquare they recently changed the ruleset which totally made the concept redundant. You can now check in from where ever you are into what ever place you want!? Wasn’t the fun in Foursquare that you actually had to ‘be there’…? In that case being able to see ‘who else was there’…?
My best friend (you know who you are!) recently stole the mayor badge of my OWN HOUSE off me, checking in every day from HIS house, which is about 30 kilometers from my house… I have never felt so bad and I never checked in anywhere else afterwards. One lesson that the developers of Foursquare (and other so-called gamification concept developers) need to learn is that your ruleset has to be realistic, righteous and consequent (consistent in English I guess).
The feedback system is not the only element of a game, there is also goals, variables to achieve your goals, rules to limit your options and a reward – or – feedback system.
So please – when you are developing a good gamification concept, bare in mind these things. Use the basic drivers people have to develop your concept, then look at specific context-related behavior and activitites that consumers display. You can read more about our vision on Gamification HERE. It’s one of my earlier posts.
Or for a good concept send an email to Bart at BrandNewGame 😉
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Angry Birds Cinematic Trailer
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For people that never wondered why the birds are angry … here’s the trailer of the original game… A movie is in the making, so that should add even more emotion to the gameplay experience 😉
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iPad 2 AirPlay Mirroring Hands On WalkThrough By AppleNApps.com
>Apple TV meets Wii-U controller functionalities through iPad…
I found this out today, through a friend of mine at Crossmarks (thanks Marc).
It’s quite amazing how the iPad can be used as a controller for all your Apple content, especially for games (then scroll / fast-forward to 2:28 minutes in the video).
iPlay Mirroring offers great opportunities for innovation! Now go check out the video!
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Dirt Devil-The Exorcist
Slide stairs at train station playful lifestyle
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What a great way to gamify physical surroundings. A train station in The Netherlands build a slide next to stairs. Go visit Station Overvecht in Utrecht and experience it for yourself!
This is where life should be going! 😉
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Gamification – Playful Lifestyle – A Slide!
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Check out this great slide next to the stairs of a train station in The Netherlands (Utrecht Overvecht to be precise)… I will slide down later today, but it was wet when I was checking it out today and I did’n want to have a wet tush at the start of my day… hahaha. More 2 Come!
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