Examples of Gamification
- Repair the Rockaways (source)
- Digital agency Mother partnered with Zynga to gamify reconstruction.
- Buy bricks in game to build in game houses.
- Profit goes to supplies, materials and labor to rebuild destroyed homes in Rockaway, NY.
- In game neighborhood modeled after peninsular neighborhood in Queens.
- Video games help treat kids with chronic pain (source)
- New pain care complex utilizes specially made games with MS Kinect.
- Patients can improve their health by painting, playing, and exercising without them realizing they’re receiving treatment.
- Video games serve as a distraction for children but target their bodies the same way a physical therapy session would.
- New pain care complex utilizes specially made games with MS Kinect.
- Foldit puzzle game (source)
- University of Washington’s center for game science collaberated with their biochemistry department to created foldit
- Online puzzle game about protein folding.
- Game allows players to compete in figuring out various protein structures that fits a researcher’s criteria
- Researchers had been working for 15 years to find a solution to the AIDs causing virus M-PMV.
- Solution was found 10 days after games release.
- Solution was found 10 days after games release.
- University of Washington’s center for game science collaberated with their biochemistry department to created foldit
- Freerice (source)
- 15 million children die of starvation every year.
- Billion have less than $1 a day to buy food
- Almost 50% of human population live on less than $2 a day
- People spend too much time playing games to help the poor
- Freerice created a quiz site
- Answer quiz questions
- 1 correctly answer questions = 10 grain of rice bought by freerice
- funded by site sponsors
- freerice has donated to date(2012) 6100 metric tons of rice
- enough to feed 10 million people
- 15 million children die of starvation every year.