Gamification and the Existential Crisis
A long time ago, before you were born (if you were born in 2010), there was a man named Jesse Schell. Jesse had a vision for the future he shared …
Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned from Gaming
Sometimes, when people learn that I am a gamer, I get a funny look and the comment “Wow, you don’t look like a gamer.” Appearances aside, I tell them that …
Cheating vs. Gaming
Cheating is not gaming. When we say we’re “gaming” a system, what we’re doing is cheating or exploiting a loophole. I believe that these sorts of negative connotations with our …
Game = Ert?
The game community was abuzz a couple months ago after Roger Ebert’s famous “Games Are Not Art, and Never Will Be” blog post. It’s all a matter of opinion, of …
Game Motivations
A little while ago a few friends from the game dev community were all sending out invites to a new(ish) Zynga game, FrontierVille. I jumped into the game to see …