gamification
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How One Teacher Turned Sixth Grade Into An MMO
127Editor’s Note: Ben Bertoli is a long-time Kotaku reader and commenter, a lifetime, dedicated video gamer and a sixth-grade teacher in Indiana. He reached out to Kotaku this past week to share the story of how he turned his class into a role-playing game. The enthusiasm and motivation of the children in Bertoli’s class evoke…
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Arcade Machine Inverts Gaming-Laundry Relationship
Playing video games and doing laundry are two activities that don’t go well together at all, unless you’re Kingston University design student Lee Wei Chen, who has used his magical powers to combine to join the two tasks in unholy matrimony.
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Money Management Isn’t A Game… But It Can Be!
J.D. Roth is a pretty famous finance blogger, he is also huge fan of video games — in particular StarCraft II. Now he’s discussing the ways in which he is attempting to combine his love of games with his love of finance. In an interesting blog over at our sister site Lifehacker, J.D. Roth has…
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What Can Terrorists Learn From Video Games?
Gamification is the act of applying video game-like rewards to non-gaming situations as a form of motivation. Imagine earning experience points for taking out the trash, or scoring well on a customer service survey, or learning how to create homemade explosives for use in terrorist acts.