About Badges

Badges

We're creating a game layer for Open Source Ecology!

While there are many elements that gamification can help with, focusing on specific short-term projects will enable a smooth transition to a more integrated game layer. Badges are a specific game mechanic system that is tightly-focused, easy to implement and has fairly high returns on impact for time invested.

They require and tie into a Profile System.

Concepts

References

*DICE 2010 Design Outside the Box - SEE THIS VIDEO. - This lays out why game layers are so important.

Theory

• Gamification Wiki
• [1]
• Yahoo Research
• Gamification Wikipedia

More Theory

• - Achievement Design
• Unlocking Achievements
• Ethics
• 10 Gamification Rules
• Gamifaction Ideas

Companies

Companies that specialize in gamification

• BadgeVille
• Gamify
• Gameful - Community-based, we should recruit from here.

Examples

• [2]
• Google News
• Khan Academy
• FourSquare
• Stack Overflow
• Kongregate

OSE Badges Ideas

OSE Badges - Some possible ideas

• (these all need much better names... And fun badge icons!)

Badges

• Documentation Reader => Read a set of articles.
• Wiki Organizer => Categorize/Tag a number of pages.
• Wiki Editor => Edit a number of pages.
• True Fan => Become a True Fan
• Recruiter => Get a friend to become a True Friend.
• News Spotter => Post a news article reference to OSE
• Liker => +1 / Upvote OSE on a social network.
• Tweeter => Post a message to #OSEcology
• IRC Lurker => Spend time in the IRC channel
• Factor e Farm => Visit Factor e Farm!
• DPV => Complete a dedicated project visit.
• Systems Engineer => Create a systems breakdown diagram.
• MAKEr => Post a step-by-step for OSE on the MAKE: Projects site.
• CAD Master => Publish CAD drawings into the Open Hardware Repository
• CAD Porter => Port a CAD model between programs (sketchup, solidworks, inventor, etc...)
• Documentor => Post a OSE tagged Youtube video with 1,000 hits.
• Editor => Edit raw footage into a finished OSE video.
• Achievement Designer => Design a published achievement.
• Round-the-world => Visit 5 OSE development sites.
• Global Village => Visit 6 OSE global villages.
• CAMtastic Creator => Create a printable file and post it.
• Vendoriffic => Find a vendor that reduces the BOM materials on a GVCS project by at least $5.
• Operator => Complete a Dedicated Offsite Project
• Cameraman => Watch 10 live OSE webcams.
• GVCS Vision => Visit all 50 GVCS web pages.
• Builder => Build a GVCS technology (collect all 50!)
• Prototyper => Successfully prototype a technology.
• Presenter => Give an OSE presentation at a conference or school.

More ideas? Chuck 'em up on the list above!

Other

Insert other ideas here...

Actions

• Read up on theory/ideas.
• Write down badge ideas!
• Recruit designers from Gameful
• Draft a Badges Proposal to present for funding/resources!

Drupal

http://drupal.org/project/user_badges

See Also

• Website
• Microfunding