What Web3 game designers need to realize is that the extrinsic motivation of money can have an unbalancing effect on the intrinsic fun that players derive from a game. In the early wave of Web3 games, we saw this focus on money go too far but this doesn't have to be the norm forever.
Read MoreI have lived many virtual lives through The Sims games and learned some things about myself in the process. Robloxʼs Welcome to Bloxburg, a sim-like game developed by Coeptus, is helping my child learn to build in 3D space.
Read MoreThe hapū of Tangoio Marae have a serious decision to make about this place that is so central to their community, and one of their decision-making tools is unorthodox: a board game. Called Marae-opoly, the Māori community designed the game in partnership with researchers from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research with the explicit goal of helping the hapū decide how to manage the flood risk to their marae.
Read MoreGreene County Technical Education Center instructor Kate Gozzard spent the summer preparing something new and exciting for her students this year: the "Gamification" of her Culinary Arts classroom, which involves popcorn buckets, movie tickets and even a marquee sign on one wall-all handmade by Gozzard during the summer months to liven up the atmosphere when students came back from break.
Read MorePlaying the game got me thinking about the use of games in financial education, and as it turns out there is a lot to be said for the idea.
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