[casual_games] game mechanics in web apps

[Tom Park]

> In particular, I'd like to discuss applying game mechanics to web applications

Amy Jo Kim gave a great talk on this topic, "Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Design to Mobile Services" at Etech and GDCMobile earlier this year.

Slides here: http://shufflebrain.com/GDC2006.htm

Plenty of examples, not gonna list 'em here -- just go see the slides.
--t


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  From: Andrew Chen 
  To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:39 PM
  Subject: Re: [casual_games] Seattle/Bellevue game designers?


  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: 




    http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ 





    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 and children into computing machines.



    PS: Where is that funny legal guy on the list here? He should probably tell everyone reading this to get everything under mutual NDA, communicate concepts only via registered fax transmissions, and charge 350 an hour for services rendered.




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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?



    Hi,

    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. 

    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!

    Thanks,
    Andrew

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