Merci Hammon and Justin Hall are talking about surveillance gaming at Etech 2008. If you’ve played Xbox 360 games, one component of this is being able to see what games your friends are playing, comparing your achievement points to friends, and contact friends who you know are currently online. I know that I’m more motivated to complete a game I’m not really into if my friends currently have a higher gamer score as a result of the game. There’s something about “leveling up” by getting more achievement points than your friends. But what if you could get points for things in your daily life. 10 points for cleaning the toilet. 5 points for paying the power bill. Would you be more inclined to do things you don’t enjoy if there was a leveling up involved in doing it?
Justin and Merci are taking this concept to the Web with their PMOG game, rewarding you for visiting sites, offering interesting surprises for finding things on sites (kinda like geocaching for the Web without knowing the cache is there) combined with the randomness of StumbleUpon.
Back in mid-October I announced that I was giving a way a copy of Halo 3 Legendary Edition. I was supposed to announce the winner on November 1 but completely forgot due to 100 other things going on in my life. So it’s with great pleasure that I annouce today that Jon-Paul over at McWilliams’ World is the lucky recipient of the game, helmet and whatever else comes in that giant box.
UPDATE: Jon-Paul at McWilliamsWorld.com is the lucky recipient of the Halo 3 Lengedary Edition.
When Halo 3 launched, a handful of Xbox 360 gamers were lucky enough to get their hands on the Halo 3 Legendary Edition, complete with a brand spankin’ new Master Chief helmet. If you missed out the first time around, you can either spend your cold hard cash on eBay, or you can try your luck at getting Halo 3 Legendary Edition free from me. This is the kind of opportunity that should make you proud to wear those Master Chief Underoos while you swear at the n00b on Xbox Live who just fragged your drop seat; and it won’t cost you a penny.
So what’s the catch? How can you score your own free Halo 3 Legendary Edition? Simple. To qualify, you need to post a link to http://www.jakeludington.com in your personal space on the Internet. You can post a link in your Facebook account, you can add me to your Wordpress blogroll, you can add a link to your blog on MySpace. Wherever you post your link, just email me and let me know so you don’t get overlooked (or add me as a Friend on Facebook or Myspace to make it even simpler to track). On 1 November 2007, I will choose a winner at random from all the Halo 3 fanatics and Xbox 360 fanboys and fragdolls who post a link.
The DDR pads available for the Xbox 360 version of Dance Dance Revolution are lousy. They’re made out of cheaply stitched plastic that wears out and doesn’t conform to the 12-inch square size of the arcade style DDR dance pad. Brandon came up with a way to make the pad last longer, get better response from the squares when dancing, and had some fun with the black light paint in the process. You can watch the video or read about how to build a better DDR pad.
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