On Aug 4, 6:36 pm, Alex Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Trophy 2.0: Achievement Systems and the Social Web > > Presented by Matt Thompson > > Pins, badges, stamps, points, and feats: achievement systems are an > increasingly important design pattern for the social web. This talk will > trace the history of achievements from their roots in videogames through the > present day, including a survey of how today’s most visited sites are > leveraging them in new and interesting ways. From there, we’ll dive into the > psychology of what makes achievement systems so addictive, as well as some > theory behind best practices for building them into your own application.
Hope to make it out to this one, the talks sound awesome! Didn't see contact info for Matt, but if anyone on the list is interested in the broader game mechanics behind "achievements," we did a workshop on them a while back. http://vi.to/nathan/GameMechanics.html are the notes for the exercise, outlining the building blocks that go into game mechanics like achievements, the exercise itself, plus the handouts and the full bibliography. http://vi.to/workshop/20100426/ has the results of the workshop exercise itself, including all the ways each team applied game mechanics to the same application scenario. Nicole and Ray's was particularly well done. Vitorio -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
