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My love affair with text adventures

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Adventure engine 4 My love affair with text adventures

I have to admit, I have always loved text adventures and choose your own adventures. From Lancelot on the Amstrad PCW8512, to 80 Days from Inkle Studios. The way text base adventures make you imagine the world you are in, for me, is priceless!

Now, rather than write a standard blog post on this, I decided to test out my latest text adventure engine – and write the post in there. It does not play well with phones yet I am sorry to say.

Click to give the Why I love Adventure games “adventure” a try. Read More ...

Gamification: What the Experts Think

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Gamification Gamification What the Experts Think

A few weeks ago, I sent out a short survey to about 15 people in the Gamification world. The idea was to get a some simple answers to questions I have pondered over time. I thought it would be fun to get them all to give answers to the exact same questions. Here are the first round of answers!

Massive thanks to the first run of responses – Scott Schnaars, Marigo Raftopoulos, Michael Wu, Mark Sorrell, Barry Kirk, Erika Webb, Steve Bocska, Jesse Schell, Scott Sinclair, Ivan Kuo,Toby Beresford, Anthony Williams Read More ...