Thriving in the coming game mechanics hype cycle

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6 pointsryanelkins2 comments

I recently held a workshop on applying game mechanics, in this case to a calendaring system.

Details are here: http://vi.to/workshop/20100426/

Between going through the exercise (especially with others doing it and then collaborating on additional iterations) and all of the reference material, coming up with compelling game mechanics and metagame mechanics should be doable for anyone.

This is pretty interesting to read over other people's designs. It's interesting to see what they want to do and then think about how, as a developer, you would actually accomplish that feature.

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