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What type of game can we make in Gameful?

Feb 22, 2012 at 12:08 am by NeedleOfJustice

  Thoughts?  Feelings?  Actions?

Hoover Diving

Feb 20, 2012 at 9:18 pm by Drew Crow

Do you have young kids? Has your wife/husband/partner left you with the kids all morning and no car to go anywhere? Is it pouring with rain outside? Does your carpet need hoovering? FEAR NOT!! All you need is – hoover diving! Hoover diving is a way of getting your kids to hoover for you without [...]

Game Reviews are in need of a new look.

Feb 14, 2012 at 4:50 am by Tim Staley

  I’ve been growing more and more disillusioned by how partisan the game review scene is.  There is a palpable schism between gamers around how to look for trustworthy reviews, and no middle ground present.   On one hand, you have the qualitative readers, who want to be critical of a game based on qualitative [...]

The Gaming of Art, challenge #1

Feb 13, 2012 at 5:22 pm by a4rdv4rk

I made this last week for the Gameful art group I’m trying to generate some interest in.  _http://gameful.org/groups/the-gaming-of-art/forum/ 

by Samuel

Google Science Fair

Feb 13, 2012 at 2:27 am by Samuel

Hey everyone!      If you haven’t heard of the Google Science Fair, you can find the link here.  Anyways, I am under 18, and eligible for entry.  I’ve always wondered if I could prove gamification improves efficiency/enjoyment/absorption etc., and this would be a pretty good chance.  Anyway, I’m at a loss as to how to [...]

Google’s Privacy, Your Privacy.

Feb 7, 2012 at 5:09 am by NeedleOfJustice

Gameful definitely has a “Tomb Raider” feel to it.  Took forever to figure out how to blog post…All these mazes to unlock!   So.  Google has a new holistic Privacy Policy.  How many people do you think, out of millions affected, will bother reading it?  How can we encourage people to be more thoughtful?  Do [...]

by Katie

How to Use Game Creation as a Study Technique

Feb 2, 2012 at 4:10 am by Katie

I’m a math teacher in Silicon Valley and I’m brainstorming ways to integrate game creation in my classroom instruction. I asked my students what kind of math video game they would like to play. I heard many different ideas, but almost all of the students expressed an interest in engaging multiple choice style games. Many [...]

What makes a game interesting?

Jan 11, 2012 at 2:21 am by Timothy Dang

There’s a fancy solution concept in game theory called “logit equilibrium” which allows people to make mistakes when they’re playing a game. (Most classical game theory doesn’t allow for mistakes, but there are several suggestions now for how to incorporate mistakes, logit equilibrium is only one.) One of the particularly neat things about logit equilibrium [...]

Looking for collaborators!

Jan 9, 2012 at 3:43 pm by Nathan Maton

I’ve decided to dive full time into a project I’m passionate about and have been working on part time.  I’m looking for a co-founder who is a) extremely passionate about creating a civically engaged society and b) is an implementer / extremely organized as those are both things I’m only okay at (if you’re curious [...]

by Dan

Looking for Gameful families

Jan 3, 2012 at 11:35 pm by Dan

Hello again Gameful folks, My team and I have been working on Character Booster (http://www.CharacterBooster.com/introduction) for the past few months. It’s time for us to put Character Booster to use by a select few families in order to get the feedback our team truly needs to make Character Booster a generation impacting success. It would [...]