Posts Tagged ‘game mechanics’

Summary of My Playful IAs Argument

In Articles on 26 September 2007 tagged emergence, Euro IA Summit 2007, flow, fun, game design, game mechanics, games, gaming, GD, IA, information architecture, kicking ass, play, presentations, user experience, UX with 6 comments

I thought I’d post a short summary of the argument I made in my Euro IA Summit 2007 talk, for those who weren’t there and/or are too lazy to actually go through the notes in the slides. The presentation is basically broken up into three parts: Future web environments are becoming so complex, they start [...]

Playful IAs — Slides for My Euro IA Summit 2007 Talk

In Talks on 25 September 2007 tagged algorithmic architectures, emergence, Euro IA Summit 2007, flow, fun, game design, game mechanics, GD, IA, information architecture, kicking ass, MMOs, MUDs, play, possibility space, presentations, rewards, slides, social software, user experience, UX, Wii, Will Wright with 19 comments

After a considerable amount of fiddling with SlideShare I’ve finally managed to upload a version of the slides that go with my Playful IAs presentation. This more or less as I presented it at the Euro IA Summit 2007 and includes an approximate transcript of my talk. I hope to get an audio/video recording of [...]

Game Mechanics in Web Apps

In Articles on 20 July 2007 tagged CAPTCHA, fun, game design, game mechanics, games, gaming, goals, Google Image Labeler, interaction design, IxD, LinkedIn, Luis von Ahn, motivations, play, user experience, UX with 9 comments

A while ago there was a discussion on the IAI members list about game mechanics on web sites. Andrew Hinton pointed to the Google Image Labeler and LinkedIn‘s ‘profile completeness’ status bar and asked: “Can anyone else think of a use of a game mechanic like this to jump-start this kind of activity?” (Where “this [...]