Mindtrek 2018
The first day was about game research for me, so I went to see the presentations about gamification, then games 1 and 2. The first presentation of gamification was a study about concepts of bottom-up development where the users can gamify a system. It was also something about comparing different game elements that the users wanted in their games and how those elements could work together and what combinations might not. I'm sorry to say that I don't remember much about it since the presenter spoke so fast and my very, very slow brain just couldn't follow. The second study was about tangible vs. intangible rewards in games. I think it was an app for a shop that gave you things like points (intangible) or discount coupons (tangible) based on how much you used it in a certain way. That app was used by thousands of people during the testing phase. They did come to a conclusion that, unsurprisingly, the intangible rewards don't really interest people. I guess it wo...