Julian Burgess‘s game, Whose Headline, won the News+Gaming Hackathon held at CUNY Journalism school over April 22 and 23 in New York City. The game presents headlines drawn from various publications, using RSS feeds, and asks the players to identify which publication it comes from. The original publications included The New York Times, ESPN, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The New York Daily News, Mashable, and Forbes. Cody Brown also won a prize for suggesting that The Onion‘s satirical headlines be added to the list.
At the Hacks/Hackers NYC News+Gaming Hackathon, BigDoor introduced the basic concepts of gaming economy and their gamification Application Programming Interface (API).
Brian Immel and Roy Schmidt, of BigDoor, distilled the essential elements of a game economy. For those who are new to gaming concepts, it helps to think of frequent flier programs as one of the original large scale game economies.
Brian and Roy defined some of the key elements of a gaming economy, which are address in some elements of their API.
Save the date! Hacks/Hackers NYC will be hosting a News+Gaming hackathon on April 22 and 23, at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by Seattle-based BigDoor, which offers a gamification API.
Plans are still coming together. But it looks like we will do a Friday night social event with talks about gaming with speakers from BigDoor and elsewhere. (Know anyone? Email nyc[at]hackshackers[dot]com with why that person is good)
Then Saturday is the daylong hackathon at CUNY in midtown.