Stephen P Anderson – Keynote: Sustaining Passionate Users
Yes, business applications can be made fun and gamelike. No, points, levels and badges are not the way to create sustained interest.
Tag: games
Sebastian Deterding – Closing keynote: Don’t play games with me with me
How to design a playful experience that is truly meaningful to users – instead of just creating shallow novelty effects? Which lessons do games really hold for other products and services? What criticism is valid? And how can designers interested in “gameifying” an application steer clear of the worst pitfalls?
Robby Ingebretsen – Get your game on: HTML5 for game building
You’ve seen a lot of demos, but is HTML5 really ready for primetime? We made an HTML5-based pool game with the explicit goal of creating an experience that defies your expectations for what a browser can do. In this session we’ll take you through the challenges and triumphs of working with this new technology. For the experienced HTML5 dev, we’ll share tips and tricks. For the rest of us, it will be a great primer on the exciting potential that HTML5 brings to the web.
