Posted by xeophin
... one day I have to start to count. Here comes another attempt to make something not so fun more interesting, faster, enjoyable. This time?
It's e-mail. Thank to Gmails rather open structure, other websites can plug into your inbox and therefore change the way you handle mail.
So as you go through your email, each function is given a points value. If you choose to skip a message, you’ll lose 25 points. Reply to something? You’ll gain 175 points. Of course, you can also choose to use Baydin’s other fantastic service called Boomerang to schedule the message to come back to you later when you’ll need it.
Of course, the goal ist to get to Inbox Zero; and there are even other games that do a similar thing.
The only problem I see? Currently, the gameification is not so much a gameification of the world as rather a pointification1 of the world. I wonder if there are other game mechanic schemes are out there that could be exploited to the same effect.
[1]: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/09/23/the-email-game-clean-your-inbox-earn-points-challenge-your-friends/[2]: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/09/21/inbox-zero-compulsion-to-many-game-to-0boxer/... one day I have to start to count. Here comes another attempt to make something not so fun more interesting, faster, enjoyable. This time?It's e-mail. Thank to Gmails rather open structure, other websites can plug into your inbox and therefore [change the way you handle mail][1].> So as you go through your email, each function is given a points value. If you choose to skip a message, you’ll lose 25 points. Reply to something? You’ll gain 175 points. Of course, you can also choose to use Baydin’s other fantastic service called Boomerang to schedule the message to come back to you later when you’ll need it.Of course, the goal ist to get to [Inbox Zero](http://inboxzero.com/ "Inbox Zero"); and there are even [other games that do a similar thing][2].The only problem I see? Currently, the *gameification* is not so much a *gameification* of the world as rather a *pointification*[^point] of the world. I wonder if there are other game mechanic schemes are out there that could be exploited to the same effect.[^point]: That sounds somehow ... wrong. Rest assured that no pontifex has anything to do with that.
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