Video: DICE Outside The Box
I'm gonna be upfront with you, the video above is 28 minutes long, and the first 5-10 minutes is spent discussing Facebook; HOWEVER, before you pass it by, let me tell you that it has a fantastic viewpoint of the future of gaming in society. Plus, at the beginning it discusses why Facebook gaming is "Big. Strange. and Terrifying.", which considering what has become of Facebook in the past few years as far as a gaming platform, is a pretty valid statement, and it's always humorous to poke fun at Facebook.
The man speaking in the video is Jesse Schell, he's a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, runs a game design/development studio called Schell games, and use to be a Disney Imagineer; needless to say, the guy spends a lot of time thinking about videogame design and where it is going. In the meat of the video, he basically explains some of why Facebook and many other gaming/toy trends in the past years have worked, and what the future of gaming might look like in the future if we extend these trends.
A large portion of his future view of a pervasive gaming world (which he starts around minute 21 in the video) deals with how adding incentives and virtual rewards to the everyday actions that you do regularly could one day play a big part of the actions you decide to take. The picture he describes almost sounds Orwellian at first, with sensors and objects tracking everything that you do, but if you stay with him until the end, you see how these types of incentives or "reality" games can actually have a positive effect on people and/or society. I especially like the part where he talks about health insurance agencies actually using gaming to help encourage their policyholders to engage in preventive health activities (such as exercise).
Overall, it's a very interesting viewpoint in how taking gaming practices into the real world or bringing more "reality" to gaming might have a future effect on how people live (and play) their lives in the years to come. I'm all for it, as long as Farmville doesn't become the working man's day job.
DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation [G4]
PixelPoet
Posted to Video Games, Videos on 2 March 2010
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wow, i watched the whole thing...really interesting. and really scary... i think i'd probably rebel and disconnect from that kind of point system/network. i'd probably stick to fresh fruits and veggies, no packaged or factory produced foods, sew my own clothes, and read a lot of paperback books and keep from being tracked...
but i really like the idea of replacing Dollars with Points. that is amazing.
I agree with Jupiter for the most part, I just wouldn't sew my own clothes. ;)
To add to the topic, I agree that the idea of tracking our everyday task will be more noticeable as the technology becomes available. Don't They already track our TV watching via digital cable boxes? If advertisers could have accurate statistics on who exactly is watching their ads would be priceless information for them. I would assume the government would be on board with these ideas in some way just to keep tabs on the country and it's citizens with out breaking any privacy laws or acts.
In any case I would like to see dollars replaced with points by completing menial tasks, that would be a crazy idea have tested out.