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October 18 - November 9, 2023
emerging engagement economy
Most big crowd projects today fail: they fail to attract a crowd, or they fail to give the crowd the right kind of work, or they fail to reward the crowd well enough to keep it participating over the long haul.
Folding@home
how to stop proteins from misfolding.
In Foldit, the player’s goal is to learn what kinds of patterns are the most stable and successful for doing different jobs, by taking an unfolded protein and folding it up into the right shape. This is called a “protein puzzle.”
compensation typically decreases motivation to engage in activities we would otherwise freely enjoy.26 If we are paid to do something we would otherwise have done out of interest—such
Scarce rewards like money and prizes artificially limit the amount of participation a network can inspire and support.
FIX # 11 : A SUSTAINABLE ENGAGEMENT ECONOMY
FIX # 12 : MORE EPIC WINS
smiling even when you don’t feel like it can actually trigger real feelings of confidence and optimism.
The primary win condition in Spore is to develop your single-cell creature into such a successful intergalactic
FIX # 14 : MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER FORESIGHT
our collective inability to focus on negative futures is our culture’s biggest blind spot.11
“We are individually, institutionally, and societally hell-bent on wishful thinking.”12 We are very good at positive thinking, but we tend to avoid articulating worst-case scenarios, which unfortunately makes us more vulnerable to them and less resilient if they occur.
“Games are the most elevated form of investigation.”
Superstruct: Inventing the Future of Organization
How can we protect and improve our global health, especially in the face of pandemics?
How can we feed ourselves in more sustainable and secure ways?
How can we reinvent the way we create and consume energy?
How can we be more secure in a globally networked society?
How can we govern ourselves and take better care of each other across traditional geopolitical borders?
Superstruct. wikia.com.
problem solvers in Africa today may leapfrog past the rest of the world, coming up with cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable solutions, simply because they have no other choice.
#1: Tackle unnecessary obstacles).
#2: Activate extreme positive emotions).
achieve a state of blissful productivity: with clear, actionable goals and vivid results
Do more satisfying work).
Find better hope of success
Strengthen your social connectivity)
Immerse yourself in epic scale).
Participate wholeheartedly wherever, whenever we can).
work harder to excel at things we already love
Seek meaning ful rewards for making a better effort).
Have more fun with strangers).
Invent and adopt new happiness hacks).
Contribute to a sustainable engagement economy).
Seek out more epic wins).
Spend ten thousand hours collaborating).
Develop massively multiplayer foresight).
www.realityisbroken.org.
www.gameful.org.
Games for Change (www.gamesforchange.org), Games Beyond Entertainment (www.gamesbeyondentertainment.com) and the annual academic Games, Learning, and Society Conference (www.glsconference.org).
FOLD IT! (Chapter 11) You can solve protein-folding puzzles for science at http://fold.it/portal, a collaboration between the University of Washington departments of computer science and engineering and biochemistry.
social life-management game at www.foursquare.com, or search your smart phone’s app store or market for the Foursquare mobile phone app.
FREE RICE (Chapter 11) Play games to help end hunger at http://freerice.com,
Learn more about this pending smart-meter game project, powered by Adaptive Meter, at http://lostjoules.com.
PLUSONEME (Chapter 8) Send someone you know a +1 inspiring, +1 kindness, +1 humor, or dozens of other positive strengths at http://plusoneme.com, created by Clay Johnson.
Don’t play more than twenty-one hours a week.
play up to three hours a day, or twenty-one hours a week.
So always strive to keep your gaming in the sweet spot: seven to twenty-one hours a week.
