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Yet one more factor
How gamification took over the world
It’s a thought that happens to each video-game participant in some unspecified time in the future: What if the bizarre, hyper-focused state I enter when taking part in in digital worlds might one way or the other be utilized to the true one?
Usually contemplated throughout particularly difficult or tedious duties in meatspace (writing essays, say, or doing all your taxes), it’s an eminently affordable query to ask. Life, in any case, is tough. And whereas video video games are too, there’s one thing virtually magical about the way in which they’ll promote sustained bouts of superhuman focus and resolve.
For some, this phenomenon results in an curiosity in movement states and immersion. For others, it’s merely a motive to play extra video games. For a handful of consultants, startup gurus, and sport designers within the late 2000s, it grew to become the important thing to unlocking our true human potential. However as a substitute of liberating us, gamification turned out to be simply one other software for coercion, distraction, and management. Learn the total story.
—Bryan Gardiner
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