http://kotaku.com/5479125/points-for-toothbrushing-the-gaming-speech-everyone-is-talking-about What are everyone's opinion on this? I find it kind of scary because in a lot of ways, I think he is right. :(
A friend of mine responded with this link: http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html Pretty nifty. This thread is too long so I didn't read it.. I assume there's a debate between the draconian consumers and the entrepreneurial dreamers? ;)
I'm a bit of a fitness freak. I got into athletics and it changed my life and mindset for the better, all over. A lot of times i'll talk my friends into just spontaneously doing pushups, to try and improve their habits. That is an act of manipulation . I'm changing what they'll do today to suit my purpose. My purpose is…
Anyone else in the Maryland area go to the IGDA meeting sponsored by Zynga last night? Brian Reynolds gave a talk on his real time player metrics ( everthing down to which color links git pressed the most ) and his social virality strategy. Didn't realize Big Huge Brian Reynolds was the Farmville/Mafia Wars creator.
So, you make cool art for a living. You goal is to cause people to like your art. When you get a job because your art made people like it, will you earn a place in hell? But gameplay IS the business. The fact that your friends' game is making money shows that! plenty of farmville imitators are bombing. Farmville is…
advertisement creeping into every bit of my life? that the intention of media to educate/entertain/inform me shifts away from this to just sell me stuff? getting a damn break from people trying to get to my money? That I have to use focus even more from separating ads from real content? Also I doubt your capitalist take on…
Well of course it has an effect, but that effect isn't to cause people to surrender their free will and buy what the man tells them. A salesman's goal is to get you to make a decision through persuasion, argument, charisma, etc. An advertisers is to get as big of a % of the public as they can to do the same thing. If…
I dont understand how this is scary. We've been socially pressured to achieve certain goals (stay fit! read smart books! blahblahblah, so girls will like you!) all of our history. Why NOT make a productive, profitable metagame out of life? People already shop and travel based on reward points, people already get tax…
Sup, that's were your point fails to me : Thats my biggest problem right there. Let's say there is a new stupid product doing gazillion cool stupid things, connects to facebook and unlocks achievements. Fine, I am not forced to buy it. BUT! You can be sure that everybody will talk about it and tell me (directly from…
Unless Bob wears a hockey helmet and or has a court appointed guardian that makes decisions for him, Bob is responsible for what offers Bob accepts. No one is talking about doing physical harm to Bob to turn a profit. Obviously beating Bob up and stealing his wallet is not ok. I shouldn't need to be Bob's nurse and make…