Stumbling Sojourner, or Risk vs. Reward in Accumulative Achievements
Looking at the implications of in-game achievements for repetitive, behaviour-altering tasks, and how they might be improved upon.
gamification
Genes in Space
Today, Cancer Research UK have launched the game which they and Guerilla Tea developed as a result of the #CRUKgame hackathon in March 2013.
Play to Cure: Genes in Space (iStore & Google Play) is a shockingly addictive resource-gathering game, in which you play a pilot on the hunt for Element Alpha. This substance appears along a track in the form of clouds, which correspond with ticks on graphs of genetic data. It’s these graphs which Cancer Research UK need analysed, and so whenever a player plots a course across these graphs, or collects Element Alpha within the game, they are actively contributing to data analysis which furthers the fight against cancer.
Cancer Research GameJam
Early in March 2013, I was furiously arranging pixels in order to battle cancer as a few dozen tech creators participated in the Cancer Research UK GameJam.