“It’s All a Game”
I’m finishing up one of my first weeks at work and thought I’d watch a video a few people have been passing around the office on “Why It’s All a Game.”
It’s a fantastic and lively presentation by Jesse Schell, a game designer and professor at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He discusses economic incentives and small psychological tricks that are currently utilized in fantasy games and how we can harness them to similar effect in reality (for example, “Tattoogle AdSense!”).
Earlier this week, CNN posted an article called “The Facebook games that millions love (and hate)” which highlights some of the current crop of games that latch onto somebody’s reality-based social network within the fantasy realm.
A lot of these games seem exceptionally silly, but Schell’s presentation details how we can replicate these meaningless fantasy realms to solve a lot of real world problems. And, in doing so, it makes me feel confident that reviewing policy compliance for fake mafia games is a worthy contribution to society at large.
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