Annotations for Chapter 8
Productivity games
Ross Smith of Microsoft has an interesting blog on productivity games, which includes a downloadable slideshow on the Beta1 Game and Beta2.
Making Work Like a Game
You can download PSDoom (Doom for system administration) and Brutal File Manager (file management as a shooting game).
Visitorville is an example of a game-like interface to web traffic control:
Annotations for Chapter 9
User Innovation Communities
A discussion of the rise of the mod can be found in Wagner James Au’s excellent Triumph of the Mod. If you are really interested in user innovation, Eric von Hippel’s book, Democratizing Innovation, is available free on the web, and is the single best source on user innovation and communities available.
Annotations for Chapter 10
Introduction
You can play Video Store Clerk online.
Human Computation
You can play many human computation games by Luis Von Ahn, including the ESP Game, at GWAP. Google Image Labeller is one spin-off of this work.
Game-like challenges such as GalaxyZoo encourage individuals to perform complex tasks, like identifying unknown galaxies.
Distributed Innovation and Collective Intelligence
You can see Fold.it’s gameplay below:
And this video provides an introduction to the World Without Oil ARG:
Games for Prediction
To see a prediction market in action, look at Intrade. Play the News and the X2 Project offer interesting game-based takes on prediction.
