{"id":996,"date":"2011-06-14T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2011-06-14T20:10:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T00:10:28","slug":"down-with-gamification-booo-up-with-playful-yay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/down-with-gamification-booo-up-with-playful-yay\/","title":{"rendered":"Down with Gamification! (BOOO)  Up with Playful!  (YAY)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might be the best slidedeck I&#8217;ve seen all year:<\/p>\n<p><code><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:425px\" id=\"__ss_8160769\"> <strong style=\"display:block;margin:12px 0 4px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/dings\/dont-play-games-with-me-promises-and-pitfalls-of-gameful-design\" title=\"Don&#39;t Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design\">Don&#39;t Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design<\/a><\/strong> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/8160769\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:5px 0 12px\"> View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/dings\">Sebastian Deterding<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/code><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking and half heartedly blogging about this &#8220;gamification&#8221; thing for a while now and I&#8217;ve seen or read most of the authors he references in the presentation, but I&#8217;ve never seen it all tied together quite so nicely before.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I&#8217;m generally a fan of Jane McGonigal&#8217;s thesis but her stuff is always just a little bit too twee for me and his critique of her &#8220;Reality is Broken&#8221;finally nailed why &#8211; life really is unpredictable and unfair and messy and complex and we can&#8217;t whitewash over that no matter how good the design or the intention or how &#8220;gamified&#8221; we try to make reality.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at all into game design, or paying attention to the &#8220;gamification&#8221; trend for online stuff, I think it&#8217;s a must see.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphkoster.com\/2011\/06\/14\/deterding-does-philosophy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raph Koster<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/raphkoster\" target=\"_blank\">@raphkoster<\/a>) via twitter, and now following <a href=\"http:\/\/codingconduct.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Deterding<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/dingstweets\" target=\"_blank\">@dingstweets<\/a>) too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might be the best slidedeck I&#8217;ve seen all year: Don&#39;t Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design View more presentations from Sebastian Deterding I&#8217;ve been thinking and half heartedly blogging about this &#8220;gamification&#8221; thing for a while now and I&#8217;ve seen or read most of the authors he references in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,361,315,23,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts","category-gaming","category-life-online","category-metaverse","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}