Badges

=Badges=

We're creating a game layer for Open Source Ecology!

While there are many elements that gamification can help with, focusing on specific short-term projects will enable a smooth transition to a more integrated game layer. Badges are a specific game mechanic system that is tightly-focused, easy to implement and has fairly high returns on impact for time invested.

They require and tie into a Profile System.

Theory

 * Gamification Wiki
 * Cracked: 6 devious ways farmville gets people hooked
 * Yahoo Research
 * Gamification Wikipedia

More Theory

 * - Achievement Design
 * Unlocking Achievements
 * Ethics
 * 10 Gamification Rules
 * Gamifaction Ideas

Companies
Companies that specialize in gamification


 * BadgeVille
 * Gamify
 * Gameful - Community-based, we should recruit from here.

Examples

 * ifixit
 * Google News
 * Khan Academy
 * FourSquare
 * Stack Overflow
 * Kongregate

OSE Badges Ideas
OSE Badges - Some possible ideas
 * (these all need much better names... And fun badge icons!)

Badges

 * Documentation Reader => Read a set of articles.
 * Wiki Organizer => Categorize/Tag a number of pages.
 * Wiki Editor => Edit a number of pages.
 * True Fan => Become a True Fan
 * Recruiter => Get a friend to become a True Friend.
 * News Spotter => Post a news article reference to OSE
 * Liker => +1 / Upvote OSE on a social network.
 * Tweeter => Post a message to #OSEcology
 * IRC Lurker => Spend time in the IRC channel
 * Factor e Farm => Visit Factor e Farm!
 * DPV => Complete a dedicated project visit.
 * Systems Engineer => Create a systems breakdown diagram.
 * MAKEr => Post a step-by-step for OSE on the MAKE: Projects site.
 * CAD Master => Publish CAD drawings into the Open Hardware Repository
 * CAD Porter => Port a CAD model between programs (sketchup, solidworks, inventor, etc...)
 * Documentor => Post a OSE tagged Youtube video with 1,000 hits.
 * Editor => Edit raw footage into a finished OSE video.
 * Achievement Designer => Design a published achievement.
 * Round-the-world => Visit 5 OSE development sites.
 * Global Village => Visit 6 OSE global villages.
 * CAMtastic Creator => Create a printable file and post it.
 * Vendoriffic => Find a vendor that reduces the BOM materials on a GVCS project by at least $5.
 * Operator => Complete a Dedicated Offsite Project
 * Cameraman => Watch 10 live OSE webcams.
 * GVCS Vision => Visit all 50 GVCS web pages.
 * Builder => Build a GVCS technology (collect all 50!)
 * Prototyper => Successfully prototype a technology.
 * Presenter => Give an OSE presentation at a conference or school.

More ideas? Chuck 'em up on the list above!

Other
Insert other ideas here...

Actions

 * Read up on theory/ideas.
 * Write down badge ideas!
 * Recruit designers from Gameful
 * Draft a Badges Proposal to present for funding/resources!

Drupal
http://drupal.org/project/user_badges