Episode 000005 – Draw Some Money

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In a bit of an out of sequence episode Michael and Michael talk about the investment made by Zynga in OMGPop the makers of Draw Something and what the game of it all may be.  Andy is off traveling the world, and hopefully enjoying a much needed rest from technology (as if).  We continue to ask for your feedback on the format of the show, and future topics.  How about an episode on Mobility and gaming?  Or board games?

Links:

Zynga Buys OMGPop

Is Google Being Evil?

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Episode 00004 – WTF?

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Where’s the FUN?!?!? – That’s the question that Michael and Michael ask this week, while Andy is out and about.  We focus on a few game examples including the new Matching game called InstaMatch.  We also look at fun and interesting progress systems, and some not so fun… Spinning beach ball we’re talking to you!

Next episode we are looking forward to talking to one of the Authors of the book “GameStorming”

Bonus Links:

Nest thermostat

ePredator’s thermostat stats

 

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Episode 00003 – Where’s the Work in it?

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This week we provide some games and talk about the underlying work related benefit.   Andy and Michael R, hold down the show while Michael M is off this week.  We talk about Google’s now defunct image match and how Google wanted to drive better search on their Image search. That became part of the metadata for the images.  We also discuss Michael’s addiction to Tiny Tower and recent news regarding Zynga’s copy cat game.Andy proves Leo Laporte wrong, in that there are many good podcasts for developers including:
The ChangeLog – podcast
This Developer’s Life – Podcast
The Web Ahead – Podcast
FLOSS Weekly – Podcast

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Episode 00002 – Would. You. Like. To. Play. A. Game?

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Welcome back (since this is the 2nd episode) to Games@Work.biz and we’ve decided to make a game of our podcast.  We spend this episode trying to figure out where the game is within some basic business activities.  Ideation, Brainstorming, Online Banking, and Microsoft adds badges to Visual Studio.  We even come up with a game idea for GIT and reputation management.We would love to get your ideas on how to improve the game of inventory. While Michael Rowe remembers the wrong people in a great Saturday Night Live Skit – “What the Hell is that?”

Hopefully we will have one of the authors of – Gamestorming on an upcoming episode.

Exposing Games:
HTML5 Capabilities

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