[casual_games] Seattle/Bellevue game designers?

[Andrew Chen]

John,

Funny, someone else just sent me that site as an example :)

I think there are a couple other common examples of game mechanics applied
to non-games. For stuff that's closer to games, obviously advergaming,
America's Army, and Brain Age type stuff might fit. Some forms of
edu-tainment fit in, like Yourself Fitness, a yoga program:
http://www.yourselffitness.com/. Then at the extreme, more web than game,
it's interesting to see a site like Digg which has a "scoring" system and a
leaderboard of people whose stuff got dugg often (http://digg.com/topusers),
or Yahoo Answers which has a point system to try and facilitate questions
and answers in a social web app.

Anyway, it's an interesting area that requires simple game mechanics but
might be able to take the vision of game design into a much broader market
and audience.

Andrew

On 11/14/06, John Szeder <john at mofactor.com> wrote:
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> Although if you really want to make the world a better place to live, you
> will just go to this site and keep typing the word "yahoo" or "msn" into the
> system because those sites have not yet figured out how to turn your spouses
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> *From:* casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:
> casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Andrew Chen
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:18 AM
> *To:* casual_games at igda.org
> *Subject:* [casual_games] Seattle/Bellevue game designers?
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> Hi,
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> I'm looking to meet game designers in the Seattle area for some ideas I'm
> developing with a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. In particular, I'd
> like to discuss applying game mechanics to web applications, but also get
> your take on the industry and trends as a whole.
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> I'd love to meet anyone in the game industry in the Seattle area and
> compare notes - send me an e-mail if you're interested!
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> Thanks,
> Andrew
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