Gaming in Government

Is anybody out there working on anything interesting?

There’s some WSJ coverage on this week’s Gamification Summit in San Francisco: https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/wall-street-journal-reports-on-san-francisco-gamification-summit (Check out the link at the bottom of the designing digitally article for more directly from WSJ)

Thanks Ori. If you are anyone else have suggestions on what you’d like to discuss I’d be happy to try to work something into the presentation.

Coming up Tuesday, July 31, 2012:
Game On! How Gamification Can Work in Government
This webinar will teach you:

How to use gamification to engage your customers
How and why gamification motivates user behavior
How to become involved in the Federal Games Guild
Examples of how other agencies are using games to help with their mission

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Andre’s recap of the 2012 Games for Health conference: https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/in-review-2012-games-for-health-conference

Nick has a great post on sandbox learning/gamification and the potential for the public sector: https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/on-gamification-portal-and-the-public-sector

The Navy is launching a Massive Multi-player Online Game to address its energy needs today: http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2012/05/navy-computer-game-wants-players-bright-ideas-energy-use/55823/?oref=ng-HPriver

Good thinking to plug it here, Eric. Membership in the federal games group (guild to the more hardcore gamers) is open to anyone with a fed badge and working with games in their government work. It’s about building a community to share resources and experience and better use games for positive outcomes. Anyone interested can contact me at [Read more]

OH HAI! TBH, I’m excited to get some experience with the Google tool. A lot of the “cool” NASA folks are already using it. MAX Community has it’s advantages (built in interagency rolodex, DC office for live/in-person support), but it also has it’s limitations. Once I get through Mass Effect 3, I’ll be very interested in joining you and Daniel…[Read more]

@Griffin Wholley Ahhh, glad you could make it. I was the annoying guy on the telephone who is supposed to be hosting our web site though OMB’s MAX site was a good suggestion. (Daniel filled me in.)

@Eric Hackathorn I was at the meeting this week, well I think it was the same thing. Interesting work going on across the government! I hope some great collaboration comes from the new guild!

Are most folks aware of this initiative led by the White House OSTP? http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/23/games-grand-challenges

Another great article on gamification – why it’s about more than just slapping badges on everything…
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/26/gamification-ux-users-win-lose/

Two things here: my department at GSA (Comm. & Mktg) is really interested in having someone guest write an article about their experiences using games/gamification within the government. No more than 500 words. Contact me if you’re interested.
For those of you who have started doing some gamification, here’s an article on how to keep people…[Read more]

Here’s a recent article on FBI and Army using the new Unreal engine for training:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/03/27/fbi-and-army-to-use-unreal-engine-3-for-training

I personally spent a lot of time gaming in large simulators when I was in the Army, both for the M1 Abrams and the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. These tools were invaluable to…[Read more]

Gaming technology barrier drops! Now all you need is HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript – http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/03/browserquest-is-pure-html5-gaming-goodness/

Just thought I’d point out a recent gamification discussion going on in another forum: https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/when-will-we-see-gamification-in-government