12. “To help design
my gamified life, I
enlisted Nick
Fortugno and
Margaret Wallace,
the co-founders of
Playmatics, a
New York game-
development firm.
Together we
created a plan for
the week….”
14. “The use of game
mechanics, feedback
loops, and rewards will
become more embedded
in daily life by 2020.”
Source: The Future of Gamification on The Future of
Gamification, May 2012
16. Can Treating Your
Life As a Game
Make You a Better
Person?
One full week of
keeping track of
absolutely
everything, to see if
gamification can
net you a win in the
game of life
Popular Science, February 2012
Understanding the motivations and psychology of everyone you encounter as an entrepreneur is crucial.
The Gaming Industry in focus.
The Gaming Industry in focus.
If we accept this premise….
In Shadow Government, you are using the actual statistics of the united states to see how your country grows. You can make decisions about that country and policy decisions about that country that reflect things that are actually going on around the world. And that ability to emulate what the US does is something that we consider really unique to our experience. And we also want to do that by giving you access to world news events. So, if given the opportunity to run the United States, would you bail out Wall Street or the auto industry? You have the opportunity to play out your decisions and see what the ramifications would be. You can investigate how you could re-make the United States if things ran the way you wanted to see them go. This gives you the ability to not only run your own country but compare your own country to the United States as it runs today. So, if you do, for example, choose not to bail out Wall Street, you can just run a model of the country – and compare your results to the real world and to what your friends did. That’s what we want to do with Shadow Government.