Games and Gamification (feat. C. Thi Nguyen)
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The Importance of Constraints
Constrates are actually ways to construct new kinds of activity. They're constructed activities where new kinds of actions wouldn't even make sense except for those restrictions. I think naturally without constraints, we often are stuck in our own ruts of habit. Games involve narrow, highly specified explicit ends that we take on temporarily. But if you understand what makes games awesome, then you should be terrified of gamification.
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