Life is hard and then you…play

Games are part of our culture, all of our youngsters play them. But why? First of all it’s nothing new, really it isn’t. Humans have played all kinds of games for thousands of years. Not only humans play, animals do it as well. Look at little kittens, they play through their first months of their lives. Even when they grow up, they won’t stop playing. It’s more or less the same with...
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eSports is huge!

Who would ever thought that a bunch of “so called” nerds sitting behind a monitor could fill up an entire stadium. That’s not all, the winner gets 1 million dollars. The fun part is, they don’t call it gaming anymore. Probably the idea behind it is, if you can fill up a stadium, you should call it sport :) So they named it eSports. Funny isn’t it! Because every sport basically is a...
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Do killers rule the world?

I see a game in almost everything. A game contains players, so by looking at something as a game, I also recognize the players. Players can be categorized in many ways. The most popular one is Bartle’s Player types. Named after Richard Bartle, who created them based on the behavior of MMO players. A model that is adopted by many in Gamification. It provides psychological portraits for MMO...
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Viral fun takes over!

I see a new trend in which Gamification is used sometimes. A new sort of viral video is conquering the social media by a storm. The latest techniques are used to make them appealing. I have seen Gamification, Special Effects, Augmented reality and all kind of mixtures, of these modern techniques implemented in those hilarious video’s. The result is great, I personally love those...
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5 characteristics of modern society

Our current financial crisis is a symptom of the malfunction of our current society. That is just one symptom; a lot more is going on. We are in a transition and many people are aware of this. Our society is entering a new era. Look at our educational system for example. We educate people for their own spot in our working environment. Jobs that people made up decades ago, amongst them jobs that...
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