Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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How to Effectively Gamify Activities
In the fourth chapter of your book, you show how to effectively gamify activities. You include a game about mopping and a very real game about running away from zombies. Please tell us how and why did you select these two titles and what did you learn? Well, so they imagine a game aboutmopping. Someone asked me that question at a game's conference many years ago. I think I was talking about zombies, and I said, kind of like as a joke, you know, how would you make it more interesting to mop the floor? So if we remove war points, how can we make it so that when you're mopping, you're actually having fun?
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