Link to the one in Berlin. And the comments on the BoingBoing piece are wondrous (in that they lead to wondrous links).

Comment on this.

Hmmmm. Yes and no and yes, but no, but yes.

I like the idea of the game as being 'fun' vs 'seriously selfishly strategic' a lot.

These are fun. Why?

Big one this. And relates to the movies or sports thing posited by @usablelearning.

Is this a gestalt thing? And how does the bell curve relate to ISD? And culture? And antagonisms? And it all.

Need to sort out the cross-posting branding/strategy. And for how this gets added to the gogapedia.

Artificially Difficult is the best one, but the others are cool too.

Kind of like Epic Win but with a mafia theme?

via @jesseschell and the Gamepocalypse Now site.

Kind of missing the point a little here. But also valid.

I think toys are a big part of games. And they're largely forgotten about.

As El Schell says, to build a good game, first build a beautiful toy.

I really enjoyed Choice of Broadsides. A lot. And even replayed it a couple of times.

In fact, all these Choose Your Own Adventure things seem due for a revisit.

Link to the idea of the Post-Primary narrative.

This is really interesting. Games are, in themselves, enough of a context. In the same way that we don't need a context to dance when we're kids (or another analogy which works better...)

At school, we assume we need to provide context to make something interesting. But maybe the opposite is true at work - when we force people into a context it becomes dull.

Interesting.

If you're going to do the Big Four, you'll need some sense of learners creating the context for themselves - maybe creating the context is the 'real' skill?

Barcode Battler, related to this:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/16/barcode-hero/

And it's all related to the playing with the world stuff.

The city is my battlesuit - should be a concept game.

Wow.

RT @Ludoscience MSU is updating it's list of #seriousgames : http://bit.ly/buDy9J<br />
– Seriosity (Seriosity) http://twitter.com/Seriosity/statuses/22119604201

Worth doing a search for Serious Games and adding to a review/directory and schedule - is there space in the IA for this?

This is interesting - and playful.

Big big question.

I didn't really get this when I first found it. But this helps.

The key here is that Social Learning and Gameification are pretty much about the same thing: transmedia

It's important to recall the way that the story in Elite helped me play the game, for example.

Why spend money on this? Hmmmm. Examples?

I think this is the key to gameification. This is rarely understood and I don't think many people understand Transmedia.

Gameification isn't about the mechanics but about the transmedia potential.

I don't know why I didn't see this before.

Splendid.

This really fits in with CG and world travels.

Wow, very cool. RT @mfeathers: This is one of the coolest things I've seen all month. Seriously:

Why aren't there more people making musical instruments? I mean new musical instruments, like this?

These knowledge card games are Splines?

Will games beat the heck out of the lobster/panda thing?

Crowdsourcing is and always has been a kind of game.

Remember the village fete? Where Mrs Miggins brings in her prize pig to win the best pig competition? This is crowdsourcing - the pig gets bred with others and pigs get fatter and there's more meat and everybody's happy.

A competition is a tool for processing information. Crowdsourcing is the same. Crowdsourcing is a game.

RT @jamiebillingham: opensource trading card game for learning (via @dajbelshaw ) @phylomon | Inspiring

This looks really good. Data-driven life toy with things like bowel movements and stuff like that.

my thoughts on failing in games RT @natronbaxter: Wait, you mean you want me to fail? Hot new blog post:

RT @suttree Scrawled some thoughts about @papasangre on the @madebymany blog, here:

Needs other pieces, but this is a really interesting take on the interface thing. No new controllers, just totally getting one of the senses right, like Mario got jumping right.

Forbes are saying it too. WoW gets all the press - I wonder what people think about Eve?

There's some interesting stuff in Second Lives to cull in relation to this - compare/contrast.

Conformity and its influences HT @fakelvis who hates the twerm 'HT' (and probably 'twerm' too).

Oddly enough, the perfect onboarding session would have all of these. The perfect meeting very few. This is probably worth consideration.

And this is pretty much what everybody's saying. It's like 'arty' films where you know - in advance - it's going to be difficult so you think harder. Non-gamers just won't tolerate this, so they keep telling me.

Which makes it hard to produce something original.

Not sure about this. Here via rejuvenilia and all of that sequence of books that came out a couple of years ago (that I didn't read).

RT @lindastone Great quick read: Why Fun is a Serious Issue, Thomas Moore on the importance of lightening up.