Here’s the video for an interesting speech by Jesse Schell entitled “Design Outside The Box.”
Topics of the speech include:
- the psychology of games – making them sticky
- the consumer desire for realism and authenticity as a recent trend
- technological convergence/divergence of devices, the iPhone, the iPad, and the “pocket exception”
- the possibility of game achievements improving behavior
- the fact that there are more FarmVille players on FaceBook than there are Twitter accounts
Achievements are already leaking over to non-games, some items that could have been mentioned:
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch 