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How our lives are being gamified, with Adrian Hon

Instant Genius

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Gamification in Video Games - What Is It?

In your book, you talk a little bit about conspiracy theories. I was just wondering how these two things can be linked. QAnon reminded me of a type of game that I've made called alternate reality games. Part of the appeal of conspiracy theories is that they're really fun,. They actually resemble alternate reality games in the way that they are based around communitiesThese days. If you look at people who are into conspiracy theories, it's not just someone on their own, you know, going into a library. It is a group of people talking to each other all the time, swapping information and congratulating each other for interesting theories. We need to make finding out facts about the real

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