In collaboration with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Center for Games & Impact at ASU University has initiated a “National Conversation on Games” and the future of games for impact. To quote, the conversation convenes “a series of brief, incisive, and accessible white papers on specific topics within the field [...]

The proceedings of the 2011 MindTrek conference are finally online in the ACM Digital Library, and with it, the paper I co-wrote with Rilla Khaled, Dan Dixon, and Lennart E. Nacke on “defining the damn thing” – that thing being “gamification,” of course.

In response to my review of Gabe Zichermann’s book Gamification by Design, Tim O’Reilly has posted a reaction on Google+. The upshot of his reaction is puzzlement at the amount of “scorn” and “vitriol” aimed at the book, given that “there is a there there” with gamification, and a kind, understanding attempt at explaining my [...]

Sometimes, it seems that we live in parallel worlds. Like this one:

On May 4, 2011, at the Gamification Workshop of the Digital Shoreditch Festival in London, Richard Bartle rectified a few things in his own inimitable way, among them the abuse of his model of four approaches toward playing MUDS in much recent gamification discourse. Enjoy.