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Ruud Koorevaar's Blog

I enjoy talking about games and gamification.

Find me on www.ludicity.nl.

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Gamification at Games for Health Europe 2012
Posted by Ruud Koorevaar on Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:05:00 EST in Business/Marketing
Yesterday I was at the Games for Health Europe 2012 convention and returned with mixed feelings. Let’s take a look at a couple of presentations on gamification and healthcare.
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Gamification, where did the games go?
Posted by Ruud Koorevaar on Sat, 03 Nov 2012 04:40:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Social/Online
We need to start thinking beyond merely adding a layer based on extrinsic motivators with gamification and look more closely at what makes games interesting and learn from it.
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Publishers vs Press: A Precarious Balancing Act
Posted by Ruud Koorevaar on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:00:00 EDT in Business/Marketing
A perspective on the relationship between publishers and journalists concerning NDAs and embargos.
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Grinding Social Games into Involvement
Posted by Ruud Koorevaar on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:31:00 EDT in Design, Social/Online
This essay concerns an exploration about the relation between social games, meaning giving practices, rewards, immersion and a ten feet long pole. This relation leads to the conclusion that there is still a large horizon to explore for social games.
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Comment In: Gamification, where did the games go? [Blog - 11/03/2012 - 04:40]
Thank you for sharing that ... Thank you for sharing that source of the research, good read And indeed, Deterding covers the sentiment quite well. r n r nI can only agree. I 'm seeing more and more instances of people edging towards an opinion where the influence of gamification is changing from superficial applications towards ...

Comment In: Interview: Zynga Reworks FrontierVille With The Pioneer Trail [News - 08/12/2011 - 03:07]
It's almost as if they ... It's almost as if they listened to my blog post about Zynga haha. But of course I was merely voicing a common sentiment. Nonetheless, it is nice to see that Zynga is attempting to add new dimensions to their social games.

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