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Home Sheep Home

A very entertaining and challenging casual game with a great physics engine behind this. Your goal is to take the three sheep, Sheila, Shaun, and little Timmy, back to their home by overcoming obstacles along the way.

http://www.shaunthesheep.com/games/homesheephome/

The Gameification of Everything

Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon University Professor, delivers a mind-boggling presentation about the present and future of games. He analyzes the models behind Facebook games such as Farmville, picking apart the reasons behind their increasing popularity. It’s 28 minutes long, but definitely worth watching (at least try to start it).

Some quotes I picked up:

“This is why everyone hates the iPad, it’s a giant digital swiss army knife, which is just stupid”

“Your grandmother probably plays fantasy football. It’s a game that leeches off a game”

http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Box-Presentation/
(via @kottke)

Tags: gameification, manic mondays

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1. bookmousey » Psychology of Games, Level 2April 21st, 2010

   [...] revisit Jesse Schell’s DICE 2010 presentation, The Gameification of Everything (previous post), as the concept of rewards as motivators is a main topic. Schell talks about the psychological [...]

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