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If Mobile Games Get Any HOTTER They Melt The World

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Mobile Games Are HOT and Getting Hotter
China's 11.24 billion yuan ($1.86 billion) online game industry is scrambling to devise games that appeal to a generation of players who spend more time on mobile devices than consoles or computers.


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Wow, mobile games are HOT. There is something about destroying what remains of our "free" time that is too good for smart phone enabled gamers to pass up.

Maybe instead of SoLoMo (Social Local Mobile) we should be thinking of MoSoGa (Mobile Social Games). If you are an IMer you would do well to THINK of ways to transform your CONTENT into a MoSoGa :).

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Video Game Players Are Storytellers David Cage TED Talk 

Video Game Players Are Storytellers David Cage TED Talk  | Must Play | Scoop.it

Have you ever watched a film or read a novel, wishing that you could change the narrative to save your favorite character? Game designer David Cage allows you do just that in his video games, where players make decisions that shape an ever-changing plot.

 

In a talk and live demo, Cage presents a scene from his new project, letting the audience control a character's decisions. "Interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time," Cage says.


Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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STEAL THIS
I've known video games and digital marketing were twins. David Cage explains just how sympathetic these twins are becoming.  

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Eddie Makuch's Most Anticipated Game of 2019: Ancestors The Humankind Odyssey

Eddie Makuch's Most Anticipated Game of 2019: Ancestors The Humankind Odyssey | Must Play | Scoop.it
The next game from the creator of Assassin's Creed has me very intrigued.
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Earth Defense Force 5 Review

Earth Defense Force 5 Review | Must Play | Scoop.it
Even with dated graphics, EDF 5 is an energetic essay on action game design that is way too much fun to miss.
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Final Fight's hulking beefcake Abigail Hammers Street Fighter V This Week 

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Abigail Rocks
Final Fight's hulking beefcake Abigail is coming to Street Fighter V as season two's latest DLC fighter. Abigail is a downloadable character available starting 7.25.17. 

Abigail rocks as the Rolling Stone outlines: 

 

"The massive character made his first appearance in the Street Fighter franchise in Street Fighter 3: Second Impact. In Street Fighter V, he'll come to terrorize Metro City Bay Area once more with three costumes, a story chapter, and his own stage.

 

As you might have guessed by the tires coiled around his biceps, Abigail is a monstrous gear head. When he's not causing trouble, he's driving cars—and when he's not doing either, he's probably in his shop shown in his stage during the reveal trailer. His story chapter will follow his brawls through Metro City to find his missing monster truck."

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Abigail rocks!!!

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I want to gamify...but where do I begin?

I want to gamify...but where do I begin? | Must Play | Scoop.it
When I began gamifying my classes almost 2 years ago, I had no idea of the amazing adventure it would take me on. The immersive learning environment that has been created by this new way o
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Good How To Gamify primer. 

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4 Gamification Platforms That Will Make Your Content ROCK Customer Engagement 

4 Gamification Platforms That Will Make Your Content ROCK Customer Engagement  | Must Play | Scoop.it

The Game's The Thing
Gamification is a key strategy few understand and fewer online merchants still deploy. This post about 4 platforms that can help your content gamify customer engagement is a must read. 

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The game's the thing. We know of no way to keep customers loyal and advocating your content, products, and services without games and gamification. 

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CI Games Hints at Future Away from Triple-A Race

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CI Games Behind The Scenes
We liked the look behind the curtain of video game development provided in this MCVUK.com piece on why CI Games gave some things up to make progress in other areas. 

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Interesting "behind-the-scenes" look into video game development. 

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Gaggle of new Video Games via @Flipboard Must Play

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New Video Game Reviews & Content
We've scrounged a gaggle of new video game reviews, content, and sentiment from around the web in our most popular Flipboard - Must Play!!! https://flipboard.com/@curagami/must-play-4tpati9ly 

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Getting Your Fridge to Play With Your Toaster: Gamification and IoT via @ThingsExpo

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Gamification and Internet of Things
May seem counterintuitive to think about games and the Internet of Things. Not so much says this excellent post from this @ThingExpo post. 

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Is this Video Our Hyper-Realty Future? Not so Much...

Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated…
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When The Machines Take Over

The "hyper-reality" shared in this video may be true on some level, but we doubt it. We are and will remain HUMANS and so we will use new tools to search for answers to the big questions - why are we here, where is meaning, value, and truth. 

The part we buy is the seamless integration of things hardly "seamless" today, but every tool is a means to some great end. This video posits a world where tool usage and meaning are the same thing. 

Read Ev Williams, Medium's founder, on why Medium is NOT a publishing tool for more on why we think this crazy, chaotic video has most of our future dead wrong. 

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What is gamification? — The Engagement Blog - HiSocial

What is gamification? — The Engagement Blog - HiSocial | Must Play | Scoop.it

Introduction We will soon present our gamification platform within HiSocial for websites and fan pages on Facebook, the project on which we have been working

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Great gamification primer. 

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Great gamification primer. 

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Great gamification primer. 

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Great gamification primer. 

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.@Kongregate Expands Experimental Games Accelerator

.@Kongregate Expands Experimental Games Accelerator | Must Play | Scoop.it
Kongregate is expanding its game publishing efforts this week via Launchpad X, a new arm of the Launchpad incubator program it opened last year that will fund development of more 'experimental' games.
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Great to see acceptance of our "crazy guy in the basement" or Quirky.com-like idea for building community around User Generated Content and innovation expanding to game developers. 

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If Your Platform Isn't Mobile You Are DONE via Harper Read from Braintree & PayPal

If Your Platform Isn't Mobile You Are DONE via Harper Read from Braintree & PayPal | Must Play | Scoop.it

Marty Note On End of Cash
Yeah this post from Harper Reed, Head of Commerce at Braintree is a must read for e-commerce merchants and game creators. We are sharing the post on Contests and Games Revolution because video game developers forget they are connected to the death of cash too.

The death of cash means those who create alternative and fully owned currencies such as Audibles credits or PayPal's ability to give you your own money will thrive in the mobile payment world ahead as this must read post shares.

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Jack Black's New Gaming YouTube Channel Could Rock 

Jack Black's New Gaming YouTube Channel Could Rock  | Must Play | Scoop.it
Jack Black is the latest celebrity to join YouTube with a new channel, Jablinski Games. The first video includes references to PewDiePie memes and a knowledge of YouTube culture.
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Jack Black is a gamer's gamer. His new channel should rock. 

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The Bizarre Story Behind ‘Control’s’ Reality-Breaking Oldest House (Watch) – via Variety  

The Bizarre Story Behind ‘Control’s’ Reality-Breaking Oldest House (Watch) – via Variety   | Must Play | Scoop.it
"Control," Remedy's upcoming, weird-fiction video game due out on console and PC next year, takes place in a single office building in downtown Manhattan, but inside that headquarter of Control are myriad realities, worlds, universes waiting to be explored.
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All the mysteries of the world are contained in a single office building in Manhattan without a doubt. Finally someone has made a video game to that effect. 

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Must Play Video Games on Flipboard

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Games We Play

Discover new gamer, gamer coder, and game player content in Must Play on Flipboard. 

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'Super Mario' meets Monopoly in the new 'Gamer Edition' of the board game

'Super Mario' meets Monopoly in the new 'Gamer Edition' of the board game | Must Play | Scoop.it

Monopoly Meets Mario

Cool collision of the board and electronic games in new Monopoly Gamer edition. 

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Interesting idea to branch board games with video games. Potentially smart for both players. 

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9 Things That Educators Should Know About Gamification

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Gamify Education

Gamification has grown in popularity as teachers and educators realize the wealth of potential that games offer their students, no matter the age. Fast fading is the idea that video games are a waste of time. Discover ways games can augment, enhance, and engage students and teachers. 

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This post focuses on gamifying education but lessons are applicable to business too. 

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Less and Less for More and More - Video Game Developers Turn to Micropayments  

Less and Less for More and More - Video Game Developers Turn to Micropayments   | Must Play | Scoop.it

Video Game Development Trends
Many trends start in video games. 

 

  • "Leveling Up" 
  • Content as Increasingly Addictive
  • Content as a seemingly interactive game
  • DIY - Create your games on our platform 

 

And now the video game biz is embracing micropayments or providing less and less for more and more. Fascinating post with overtones for e-commerce, content marketing, mobile marketing, and digital marketing. http://www.growngaming.com/feature/microtransactions-new-dlc/ 


Via Jonathan Birkenstamm
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Interesting post about how video games are becoming micropayment gateways. We suspect that trend, one we observed with Harvard Business Review about five years go, will multiply and morph into many business channels. 

Chris's curator insight, October 8, 2019 8:55 PM
With the growing trend of Microtransactions in video games, game companies become aware of another means of making a profit other than through the mere purchase of their games. Through distribution of digital goods for use in the game in exchange for real world money, game companies found a way to profit in a way that did not necessarily rest on the merits of the games themselves, but on social engineering and incentive for players to become sources of recurrent revenue.
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A Plague On Your House & Kitchen Table - New Tabletop Game With Reverse Marketing | Geek and Sundry

A Plague On Your House & Kitchen Table - New Tabletop Game With Reverse Marketing | Geek and Sundry | Must Play | Scoop.it

Plague Reverse Marketing

We've heard of "reverse marketing" - taking something odious and making it fun - but never seen reverse marketing executed so effectively as Plague, Inc. This new table top game wants to infect your kitchen table, desktop and mind. Too Good. 

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Great reverse marketing example. 

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Content Marketing & the Game Within the Game in HBO's Westworld

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Content Marketing & the Game Within The Game
HBO's Westworld is an amazing achievement. It makes for great television and it can teach web designers a thing or two if we're listening. We shared 5 Content Marketing Lessons the show shares including:

  • Show Don't Tell
  • Tease Never Bore
  • Beauty solves half the Battle
  • Believe and MOVE
  • Create another Loop

 

on Curagami: http://www.curagami.com/content-marketing-five-lessons-from-hbo-westworld/

Westworld  is a game. These days, thanks to ubiquitous smartphones and technology, everything is a game. Westworld's game is operating on many levels simultaneously including: 

  • Surface where those on "vacation" wreck havoc on robots
  • Robot on Robot game wondering who will win
  • The corporation game wondering who will be the hero and keep their jobs
  • Robots vs. Humans with a hard rain about to fall on greedy, violent humans
  • The game within the game


When Ed Harris scalped a robot finding a maze the game within the game was exposed. Harris' character is a thirty year Westworld veteran. 

Viewers are left wondering if Harris is rogue and on an unanticipated quest or if he is part of the "infinite" progression of the game. Planned or unplanned Harris is a master at the gruff voice and steely stare. 

On the web everything is a game. Your customers want to complete, cooperate and join. Are you asking for help? Do you know your movement? Westworld's creators are playing many games all at once, and doing so brilliantly, with grace and joy. Your or my website should be so lucky. 

I'll try to remember to craft multi-level games in the e-commerce sites Curagami helps design. You should steal Westworld's Game within a Game idea for your web design. 

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Gamification: Winning the Loyalty Game

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The fundamental goal of every loyalty program is to engage the customer. How do you do that? The equation seems ridiculously simple — excitement equals engagement.
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Games vs Loyalty

You may not think of airline miles as a game, but it is. Not all games create, develop or confirm loyalty. Some games are played with the express purpose of being disloyal. 

 

Deal busters, or people who know what brand they want and are pitting one retailer against another to get the best price, aren't very loyal. They are playing their own game and their winning may be your brand, website or company's losing. 

 

Better to understand how to use game mechanics to increase engagement, listening and curation as this post explains. 

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Papa and Education Got A Brand New GAME via 

Papa and Education Got A Brand New GAME via  | Must Play | Scoop.it
Gamification has tremendous potential in the education space. How can we use it to deliver truly meaningful experiences to students? Learn all about the impact of gaming on education in this infographic.
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Don't be fooled by the title, lots of gamification tips and ideas to steal for biz here 

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FunPlus launches $50 million fund for indie, mobile games

FunPlus launches $50 million fund for indie, mobile games | Must Play | Scoop.it
Mobile developer and publisher FunPlus today announced a new $50 million fund aimed at indie developers -- primarily, but not exclusively, mobile-focused teams.
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Drone Races 45 MPH Indoors in this SICK Video #toocool

Drone Races 45 MPH Indoors in this SICK Video #toocool | Must Play | Scoop.it

It's been a bit since we last saw DARPA's bird-of-prey inspired drone system, but the government's mad science wing hasn't been sitting idle. The Fast Lightweig...

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Wow, you can see the new video game forming here and battling robots is never going to be the same.

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