Media Shifters » Game Design http://www.mediashifters.com Moving Media Into a Higher Gear Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:49:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 A Good View of Gamification http://www.mediashifters.com/game-design/a-good-view-of-gamification/ http://www.mediashifters.com/game-design/a-good-view-of-gamification/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:23:07 +0000 Andrew http://www.mediashifters.com/?p=156 Lots of interesting stuff in this presentation on gamification, although It is a bit odd to see how much backlash is hitting this space before we’ve even seen the implementation.

Pawned. Gamification and Its Discontents

I’d point out that a lot of what of what he’s defining as “play” here deals with consequences. Fewer consequences, more fun.

]]> http://www.mediashifters.com/game-design/a-good-view-of-gamification/feed/ 0 Why Game Narrative is an Oxymoron http://www.mediashifters.com/definitions/why-game-narrative-is-an-oxymoron/ http://www.mediashifters.com/definitions/why-game-narrative-is-an-oxymoron/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:29:08 +0000 Andrew http://www.mediashifters.com/?p=147 If you haven’t been watching Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe you’re missing out on some great meta-media commentary on the pitiful state of television “news”.

Last year he created a special focused on Video Games called “GamesWipe”. It has the same snarky attitude as his regular show, and featured this bit of commentary on game content by British comedian Dara O’Brien.

The first few minutes are as cogent an argument as I could ever make about why the idea of “Great Game Narrative” is most often a fool’s errand. That’s not to say it isn’t possible, but it also isn’t what, at the core, makes a game “good”.

The relevant content begins at 2:15
(and contains some NSFW words)

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