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.

Amazing, simple game with one-button only - but the button does something different every game.

Aki points out he did the SCVNGR thing a while back - and points out that loads of people are probably working on the same thing.

I know I am - and wonder if there's a game in this somewhere. Game Mechanics the Gathering.

Looks neat. There was a similar one where Twitter avatars fought each other too - but I can't remember where that one was.

via @ludofy

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 game is superbly awesome. Superbly awesome. Like, really really good.

This is interesting - and playful.

There's something in this about having a service which you can use to 'educate' customers.

Instructional Design for Marketers. Now there's something to conjure with.

Big big question.

Why spend money on this? Hmmmm. Examples?

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

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

There really should be an enterprise version of this little game. It takes a couple of minutes to play and is totally delightful - if you get it.

It's a game of sacrifice and pearls of wisdom.

Splendid.

Game thinking is a nice term of art.

This really fits in with CG and world travels.

Can I use this to get 'better' at Wikipedia and seeing connections? What would happen if I played this for an hour?

Great Prezi - I think a revamped version of an earlier one?

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?

Thinkpak - brainstorming cards. More knowledge cards.

Card games: what we had before we had random number generators.

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.

Barcode games are very subversive. I'm not sure how radical these things are going to be, but I suspect very.

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

An RPG where you can play who you like. A great idea, if not exactly for me.

There's some interesting stuff here, if you dig hard enough. Inc the 'hey guys, do you think history is boring? let me teach you!' stuff in the 'Worlds' part.

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.

Lots of Hmmmm, a little Meh, but mostly Yay!

Getting slightly obsessed with 80% time (as opposed to Google's 20% time). How else could you build a lattice organisation that was resilient, held knowledge and experience and protected itself against the alpha male?

Game mechs and gameification - what a headline.

Rules for pervasive games - they're good and they make sense. And few pass the test. This includes gameify games as well as ARGs.

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