oundationally, behaviorism offers us five foundational ingredients for a healthy and balanced reward schedule. Firstly, continuous reinforcement operates just as it sounds. We reinforce a player every single time they perform the behaviors that we'd like to see. We may even reinforce behaviors that get incrementally closer to what we'd like to see, what behaviorists call shaping.
The Escapist : Achilles' Phat Lewtz (or, how mmorgs are like the Illiad) - 0 views
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"When Achilles opts to sit out because his guild leader Agamemnon decides to take away a piece of Achilles' phat lewtz even though Achilles had spent the DKP to get it (see Book 1 of the Iliad"
Do prisoners need PlayStations? | Society | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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"most of the time that people spend in our prisons is wasted time - bang-up is the most abundant commodity in the prison system. So the prison service has to provide some means of helping the thousands it confines not to go mad - or worse, to become uncon
Game review: Free Realms for PC | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Tiered membership means you'll come across items and quests only available if you sign up, but even so, this game has more than enough quality free play experiences to keep you entertained.
The Hand Eye Society » Canzine Artcade 2009 - 0 views
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"Mark and Rose showed people the wild fun to be had attaching balloons to buses with Gary's Mod, and Davin invited people to draw their own videogame character which he then animated in front of their eyes"
Why playing in the virtual world has an awful lot to teach children | Technology | The ... - 0 views
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"A YouGov poll has suggested that computer games can damage children's ability to communicate, but Tom Chatfield argues that gaming imparts a range of new, vitally important skills"
WoWinSchool Wiki | Collaborative Workspace for Educators - 0 views
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"This is a collaborative workspace for the development of instructional items for the use of the MMORPG, World of Warcraft, in a school setting. Please take a moment to explore the various sections of the site and if you would like to contribute, please email Lucas Gillispie at lucas AT edurealms.com."
15 Minutes of Fame: Learn to game, to game to learn | Educators in WOW - 0 views
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"We've spoken with other groups of academics who band together in guilds, and they don't always progress very far or become truly embedded into WoW's player culture. Is Cog Diss actively raiding? "
Ian Bogost - Art History of Games: Video - 0 views
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"Back in February, Georgia Tech Digital Media and SCAD Atlanta held the Art History of Games conference, which I organized along with Michael Nitsche and John Sharp. We had an amazing group of speakers as well as an opening for three commissioned games"
Richard A. Bartle: Early MUD History - 0 views
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"The very first MUD was written by Roy Trubshaw in MACRO-10 (the machine code for DECsystem-10's). Date-wise, it was Autumn 1978. The game was originally little more than a series of inter-connected locations where you could move and chat."
Gamasutra - Features - Psychology is Fun - 0 views
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Foundationally, behaviorism offers us five foundational ingredients for a healthy and balanced reward schedule. Firstly, continuous reinforcement operates just as it sounds. We reinforce a player every single time they perform the behaviors that we'd like to see. We may even reinforce behaviors that get incrementally closer to what we'd like to see, what behaviorists call shaping.
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World of Warcraft, regardless of race or class selected. Learn to walk properly, kill efficiently, use skills, loot, sell, etc., and there's no dearth of praise, experience, and cash value. Yet, continuous reinforcement is the first to wear off, because players immediately notice once you've staunched the flow of reward.
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"Pleasure first, and then, excuse from pain, shape every move that we will ever make -- so say the behaviorists"
Terra Nova: LOTRO F2P Seems to Be a Success - 0 views
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The question is, will you get enough revenue? By opening the door, will you get enough new people that the nickle-and-dime revenue strategy makes up for the loss of good, solid, almost-guaranteed subscriptions?
Can't play, won't play | Hide&Seek - Inventing new kinds of play - 0 views
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What we’re currently terming gamification is in fact the process of taking the thing that is least essential to games and representing it as the core of the experience.
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There's also the issue of play. Games offer play. Achievements and points are merely reward structures.
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but neither points nor badges in any way constitute a game
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They are the least important bit of a game, the bit that has the least to do with all of the rich cognitive, emotional and social drivers which gamifiers are intending to connect with.
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What we're currently terming gamification is in fact the process of taking the thing that is least essential to games and representing it as the core of the experience.
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Another point here is the importance of "play" - games are designed to offer play in some form or another. Achievement structures are not play but an end object.
[toolkit] Games for Change (G4C) -- Resources - 0 views
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"So you want to make a game for change? Congratulations and welcome!"
The Perfect Ten: Weird staples of every fantasy MMO - Massively - 0 views
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Giant spiders, skimpy armor, no bathrooms, kill ten rats ... and others
Why are so many game developers opposed to gamification? - Quora - 0 views
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"Overall, if you really want to "gamify" something, you should ask yourself "how do I make it more fun?" instead of "how do I get people to use it compulsively?""
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