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What Smart Companies Must Learn From Gaming
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Leave a comment This informational video from eWeek argues that companies and institutions can learn from gaming: it then stands to reason that using game technology, design and aesthetics to aid business processes, training and problem-solving makes a lot of sense. End to End Game Development can help get you there!
Microsoft’s Productivity Games
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Leave a comment We’ve rounded up several posts about Microsoft’s productivity games, for an overview of what the software giant has been doing in this important subspecies of serious games.
Productivity games are applications designed to increase work efficiency while also increasing job satisfaction through the application of game aesthetics and mechanics. Virtually all jobs have some degree of repetitiveness — some more than others — and nearly all of us hate that aspect of work.
Yet interestingly, games require repetition — and find ways to encourage us to embrace the repetition. If we can find ways to build some fun into job repetitiveness, both employer and employee should win.
The games described include Microsoft’s Windows 7 localization game, and their current game encouraging usage and feedback for Office Communicator.
Scroll down towards the bottom of this post (included in the overall roundup), look for “Helpful Material,” and you’ll get a great set of links for the further study on the topic of productivity games.
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