[...] Entertainment. Games are about fun; far too many web services are simply not fun. All activities can be improved by adding some fun factor: game-like qualities like collecting, ranking, and so on. [...]

[...] Mobile Gaming Summit Tuesday Putting the Fun in Functional – Raph has posted a summary of the session here. Slides were promised to be posted on Shufflebrain Retrieved from “http://www.dennisonstudio.com/wiki/index.php/Mobile_Gaming_Summit” [...]

I suppose you could argue that it is. Play consists of two verbs: Searching and Bidding.

My wife often walks away from the computer to tell me “I WON!” – the same words *and tone* I might use after a gaming session.

Hmm…

[...] GDC Day Two Notes: Putting the Fun in Functional [...]

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Le vilain syndrome Mars&Venus. Effectivement, c’est de la connerie. Je préfère ce genre deconf:

content. The most robust user content communities are those built by fandoms, accreting like pearls around initial ideas. Entertainment. Games are about fun; far too many web services are simply not fun. All activities can be improved by adding somefun factor: game-like qualities like collecting, ranking, and so on. Feedback. Games understand that everything is about feedback. Websites often seem to forget, and I don’t know why. This is getting better with AJAX, but there’s still a heck of a lot of

content. The most robust user content communities are those built by fandoms, accreting like pearls around initial ideas. Entertainment. Games are about fun; far too many web services are simply not fun. All activities can be improved by adding somefun factor: game-like qualities like collecting, ranking, and so on. Feedback. Games understand that everything is about feedback. Websites often seem to forget, and I don’t know why. This is getting better with AJAX, but there’s still a heck of a lot of

content. The most robust user content communities are those built by fandoms, accreting like pearls around initial ideas. Entertainment. Games are about fun; far too many web services are simply not fun. All activities can be improved by adding somefun factor: game-like qualities like collecting, ranking, and so on. Feedback. Games understand that everything is about feedback. Websites often seem to forget, and I don’t know why. This is getting better with AJAX, but there’s still a heck of a lot of