Coursera: Gamification Notes

    Gamification is not turning everything into a game but changing the user's experience to be similar to one. It is not the same as Game theory and is about recognizing the point of fun. In short it is parts of a game but without the full blown version in the user's face. From the definition of Gamification it can become some difficult to understand the differences from a game. So I ask myself what is a game or how does it explain more what gamification is? Unfortunately this question is a little more philosophy than a cut and dry answer, but a few people have tried. Such as Bernard Suits who puts it into these terms...

Terms
  • Per-Lusory Goal
  • Constitutive Rules
  • Lusory Attitude
  • Voluntarily overcoming unnecessary obstacles.
Characteristics of games
  •     Participation is voluntary
  •     Players work towards achieving an objective
  •     There are rules defining how the objective can be reached.
Pyramid of Elements (Top to Bottom)
Shows variety of options and lower levels tend to implement one or more of the higher-level concepts.
  1. Dynamics
    • Constraints, Emotions, Narrative, Progression, Relationships.
  2. Mechanics
    • FeedBack, Challenges, Turns, Win States, Etc...
  3. Components
    • Achievements, Collections, Boss Fights, Content Unlocking, Etc...
PBL - Points, Badges, Leaderboards. 

Limitations of Elements
  • Elements are not the game!
  • The point is how they are all tied together
  • Not all rewards are fun, and not all fun is rewarding.
  • Cookie Cutter if to similar with other sites.

References
A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research
Bunchball | Gamification for the Enterprise with Bunchball Nitro
Crowdsourcing - Wikipedia
Homo Ludens (book) - Wikipedia
Ludus (ancient Rome) - Wikipedia
Roger Caillois - Wikipedia
Sid Meier - Wikipedia
Zynga - Wikipedia
The Entertainment Software Association - VSDA, et al., v. Schwarzenegger, et al.
Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot: Julian Dibbell: 9780465015368: Amazon.com: Books
Bing Gordon - Wikipedia

Popular posts from this blog

UI-Bootstrap Collapsible Sticky Footer

    I could have done this a lot of ways and ultimately I made it work with javascript modifying the class names. I also had to create multiple class names which I didn't like to much, I might come back and improve this but for now this is was I got. Also I call bootstrap+angularjs = ui-bootstrap, not sure if that's common sense but thought I should include it somewhere in my notes. Working Example: http://plnkr.co/edit/2N9ENlbw3bSvg1W9n0ch?p=preview This little css was key to prevent any kind of animation on the collapse, which would result in a scrollbar appearing on the body. A scrollbar can appear when the content's too long but not on the sticky foot duh! .no-animate { transition-duration: 0.0125s; } Research Angular-UI Bootstrap Collapse without animation - Stack Overflow http://jsfiddle.net/paulalexandru/Z2Lu5/  - Was looking at this to see if I could reuse it but I ended but just doing my own thing. Another way which I've seen Using a sticky
Read more

Installing Windows on Acer chromebook 15 cb3-532

Much of my notes are just small problems I faced (what's new!) haha. Either way this was a really fun project to do for a friend and I got excited once I research all the information. You can find instruction videos but what helped me the most was the coolstar website. Sadly they don't have parameters in the url so I can link the machine I used in this article. -  https://coolstar.org/chromebook/windows-install.html Scared of messing with the bios? Don't be!    So you need to first remove the screw to put a legacy bios on the machine. Its easy to backup the chrome os one and with the same steps to change it. You can go back in and revert to the chrome version bios. Its that last part that had me worried and its very easy to do.  Problems getting into Developer Mode?   Follow the instructions to the letter, during the step to disable the OS verification, press Ctrl-D to boot into os. If you hear two beeps I would go back to set one. I got in a loop where it s
Read more

Aspetcore: NLog with Postgresql

This Article is base ASP.Net Core 2 and the latest version of Nlog. 1. Install NLog and the Postgresql Package Using NuGet to install the package into your ASP.NET Core project: PM > Install-Package NLog.Web.AspNetCore PM > Install-Package Npgsql 3. Register NLog Add in your Startup.cs  public void Configure ( IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory ) { ... env.ConfigureNLog( "nlog.config" ); ... // make sure Chinese chars don't fk up Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance); //add NLog to ASP.NET Core loggerFactory.AddNLog(); //add NLog.Web app.AddNLogWeb(); } 4. Add to Your Controller Add a logger object to your Controller. private readonly ILogger<YourController> _logger; Modify the constructor to use it public YourController ( ILogger<YourController> logger = null ) { if ( null != logger) { _logger = logger;
Read more