{"id":5054,"date":"2015-01-22T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T06:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2015-01-22T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T06:28:43","slug":"gamification-and-its-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2015\/01\/22\/gamification-and-its-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamification and its limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Because we can, in this world, achieve so little, and so little perfectly, we are prepared to pay good money in order to acquire a vicarious sensation of achievement. The detective novelist knows this, and so do the setters of puzzles.<br \/>\n-from the essay Problem Picture by Dorothy Sayers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knows this especially today? The makers of video games. Achievements, collecting all 3 special coins in that Mario level, and watching the credits roll are all satisfying in a way that getting up in the morning isn&#8217;t. A &#8220;vicarious sensation of achievement&#8221; to stand in for the sense of achievement they didn&#8217;t receive today at their job at Starbucks, or in that interaction with their girlfriend, or in their class at school.<\/p>\n<p>What can you do for a people of short attention spans? Give them tiny well-defined things to do. This often does violence to the nature of real things. A career can have interactions in it that last years. A marriage is a decade-spanning project. School is a somewhat structured sprint during a much larger race. But we are an impatient people and we manage our boredom and feelings of meaninglessness with gamification. Life may be a grind, but if it can be like grinding through a dungeon in Final Fantasy, then it&#8217;s just a little more tolerable. Our ever faithful smart phones help us on this quest.<\/p>\n<p>We are frustrated when God and Love do not gamify well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/dilbert-xbox.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5055 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/dilbert-xbox.gif\" alt=\"dilbert-xbox\" width=\"600\" height=\"213\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/213;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we can, in this world, achieve so little, and so little perfectly, we are prepared to pay good money in order to acquire a vicarious sensation of achievement. The detective novelist knows this, and so do the setters of puzzles. -from the essay Problem Picture by Dorothy Sayers Who knows this especially today? The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2015\/01\/22\/gamification-and-its-limits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gamification and its limits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5056,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}