Ok, so that may have just been one of those attention-seeking headlines. However, what I want to explore briefly is what will kill gamification if people keep heading the route they are now. The short answer to this is, misguided over complication. As more people jump on the gamification bandwagon, people’s definitions and ideas...
A lovely chat with some new friends brought about an interesting thought. Can you really write games or gamify things if you don't play games? I have rambled at length about my views on gamification. I have explained what I think the basics of game theory boil down...
People often ask where the innovation has gone in the games industry. I have been guilty of it on the past. In fact, this article was going to be titled with that exact question. However, the more I drafted the piece and the more I thought about it, the more I realised that innovation...
The Internet is saturated with sites and blogs that publish games news and reviews at a phenomenal rate. Within seconds of press releases being sent out, they appear on the Internet in a dozen different ways. Technologies such as Twitter and Facebook allow us to release snippets of information without even needing to write...
As a person who runs a games review site, I am extremely fortunate and get to try out not just games, but gaming related hardware. Anyone who has seen my site will know there are quite a few headset reviews as well as reviews of gaming mice. Just recently though, I have had a slight...
Recently I was lucky enough to be given an hour to chat with a group of 16 and 17 year olds about Social Media and technology in general. It started with a general chat about how we communicate in day-to-day life. I was amazed that the first answer I got was “Facebook”. I had...
I suppose I could call this the “Realification of Games”, but I won’t! “When I were a lad, games were better”. That is often an opening gambit of any retro game lover. Of course it is not precisely true for all retro games. It would be more accurate to say; “when I were a...
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… oh wait wrong story. A few years ago, in a town somewhere in Cardiff, before I was a father or even married (I was at University), I got my first taste of online gaming. More specifically, clan gaming. The game in question was Starship...
Just as a thought, as a tag line – Gamification: why you have been doing it since you were a small child. Gamification is another one of those words that seems to be getting a lot of use at the moment, a little bit like Cloud. If you look at the Internet for a...
