Uber announces their new credit card profiles, giving business users a reason to rejoice. An open source project tries to convert Civilizations to a budgeting game. And the Michael’s try their hands at a slow strategy game. All this and more are on this week’s episode of GamesAtWork.Biz! Show Links: Uber Duber Civilized Budgets Chore Wars Plant Watering SecurityNow – Episode 534 Auralux – The ultimate slow grind! Charlie Brown – The Coasters http://media.blubrry.com/gamesatwork/op3.dev/e,pg=6e00562f-0386-5985-9c2c-26822923720d/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Episode-128-Slow-Grind.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:38 — 16.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Podcast Index | Youtube … Continue reading →
Comments Off on Episode 60 – Bubbly Bubblers in Gamified Buildings
Phaedra, Michael and Michael were delighted to be accompanied by Ross Smith, Director of Test in the Skype division of Microsoft for this show, centered around games for employee engagement. Ross described the recent work that he and his team have done with giving personality to buildings and using the building itself as the ‘game master’, to orchestrate and facilitate employee engagement. Games for health One of the intriguing examples (also discussed in Episode 58, but without the benefit of Ross’s first hand experience) uses a water cooler with personality as the mechanism for gamifying health. While drinking eight glasses … Continue reading →
Comments Off on Episode 41 – The Paymeium Currency
The Michael’s are on together and get to talk about some incredible architecture, the long tail, and generational change before we jump in deep on some cool and fun games to help change the way you do things. Both Habit RPG and Chore Wars are great ways of leveraging your love of Dungeons & Dragons to help you game your way to new behaviors. We even talk a bit about how we can leverage this to improve our attendance for the show! We also include a great listener link on gamefication. We wrap it up with a bit of Nimble … Continue reading →