{"id":3695,"date":"2015-12-19T22:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T22:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2015-12-19T22:05:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T22:05:39","slug":"they-gamified-my-sausages-and-i-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2015\/12\/19\/they-gamified-my-sausages-and-i-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"They gamified my sausages, and I love it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamification. Either a word that fills you with dread, or with I guess&#8230;maybe&#8230;love? Probably not, but actually I love it. I find that some things, such as steam trading cards and emoticons just pass me buy. Why do I care what &#8216;badges&#8217; I have crafted on steam? I mean seriously&#8230;why? But then other stuff I get obsessed with. I quite like achievements, but I REALLY like scores and leader-boards and stats. Overall, I like gamification.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have one of those brains that is just hard wired to stats and numbers and evaluating things that way, even non-numbery things. I am not autistic, but I exist somewhere on that spectrum, I suspect. I even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/kudos2\/\">made a game<\/a> that reduces relationships between people to numbers. It was used to teach social skills to autistic kids, as well as being fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/kudos2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3698\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3698\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Image2-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"Image2\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Image2-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Image2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Image2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Image2-317x238.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So its no surprise that I actually quite like it when things in my life get gamified. My local cafe\/pub\/farm-shop has a &#8216;reward cards&#8217; system where you get 10% of your spend stored as points you can redeem. They have had this for months. Every sausage or coffee or glass of wine I&#8217;ve had there has been racking up points&#8230;more points&#8230;more points.<\/p>\n<p>Someone less mad than me recently persuaded me to spend those points when ordering Christmas stuff. So I did. And it was SO WEIRD. I actually felt a small sense of &#8216;loss&#8217; spending my points. And then, I suddenly realized there was a DOUBLE sense of loss, because not only did I just *reduce* my points balance, but I actually spent &#8216;money&#8217; there and did not gain new points. Double the blow! Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I dealt with it. I wasn&#8217;t all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen-shot-2014-03-10-at-12-46-59-pm.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3697\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3697\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen-shot-2014-03-10-at-12-46-59-pm-550x244.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2014-03-10-at-12-46-59-pm\" width=\"550\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen-shot-2014-03-10-at-12-46-59-pm-550x244.png 550w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen-shot-2014-03-10-at-12-46-59-pm-317x141.png 317w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/screen-shot-2014-03-10-at-12-46-59-pm.png 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it *is* interesting. I wonder if people get a lot MORE affected by this. How many people have &gt;$1,000 stored on some loyalty card that they can&#8217;t bare to spend?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamification. Either a word that fills you with dread, or with I guess&#8230;maybe&#8230;love? Probably not, but actually I love it. I find that some things, such as steam trading cards and emoticons just pass me buy. Why do I care what &#8216;badges&#8217; I have crafted on steam? I mean seriously&#8230;why? But then other stuff I<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; They gamified my sausages, and I love it.<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2015\/12\/19\/they-gamified-my-sausages-and-i-love-it\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}