Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJul 5, 2022

Might it be possible to have a #FOSS #augmentedReality game that doubles as a thing which #StreetCompletes at the same time?

So a person would be incentivised to go out and take snaphots of the environment, a bit like #PokemonGo, but it would be more like a genuinue game with actual puzzles formed at locations.

This maybe gets into the deceptive, surviellance side of #gaming though.

Maybe it can be ethical if it only worked over #Tor/I2P and maps are decentralised?

#ethics #videogames

Show threadMatija Nalis
@dsfgs There were such attempts as Kort, but they failed. See https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/discussions/2598#discussioncomment-389332 for details. Also, more gamification increases a risk that people will intentionally damage OpenStreetMap data to score higher (as in that PokemonGo example)
Thoughts on gamification · streetcomplete/StreetComplete · Discussion #2598

So I guess I have to explain why gamification would be very useful... It makes the app way more accessible. Telling your friends that this app is a way of improving OSM is way less effective than s...

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Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJul 27, 2023

@mnalis

We can;t access github but just what you describe is interesting. It would seem that #onlineGaming *itself* creates problems, or #perverseIncentives.

It's a shame, but expected, we suppose.