DevShop: The Cool Game that Makes Development Look Fun

http://www.secretgeek.net/devshop_i.asp

by lt • 17 years ago

20 8 17 years ago

Wait, what? Development IS fun. Bull$#@! corporate politics is not. (And yes, I understand the nature of humanity and all that.)

Tichy2• 17 years ago

I've been wondering why it is so easy to stay motivated in repetitive games, but not in work. Maybe it is time to add bonus quests, experience points, badges and leveling to the issue tracker.

Or maybe not - by now I am actually sick of that kind manipulation, to the point that I don't even want to try foursquare.

pp• 17 years ago

Isn't that simply because work is harder? This is one end of spectrum, and the other one is laying on the beach doing nothing, which becomes tiresome even sooner. Games are somewhere in between--something for the brain to chew on the edge of boredom.

Tichy2• 17 years ago

Harder in what sense, though? Both playing WoW and programming I sit perched in front of a computer, nearly motionless.

True the quests in WoW are all prepared in nice little chunks and don't require much brain power. But a lot of programming is not really hard, either. Especially for web programming there usually is a cookbook for achieving what you want.

Maybe it just needs to be chopped down into smaller chunks, too.

lt• 17 years ago

This is actually a good point. StackOverflow showed that badges work and not only in games. Probably not for your internal company tracker, but for an open source project, an issue tracker with badges, quests (you've got steps in there already, just follow them!) might be a light-hearted way to get people interested and motivated to contribute to it.

kazuya• 17 years ago

It's just because games are intentionally designed to keep the player engaged, but work isn't.

DevShop: The Cool Game that Makes Development Look Fun

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