2013 GAMES: Gamification of Second Life?

Gamification of Second Life?
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Fish Hunt game draws people
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Second Life Founder Philip Rosedale Advocates Adding Gaming Systems to Second Life

Game mechanics connected to the essential aspects of the SL experience: Content creation, socialization, exploring, economic participation, and so on.
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Gamification is an idea growing in polulartiy
Gamification Blog
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Gamification is also the idea offered by AmyNevilly, Managing Director of Second Ads
Shift from land model to gaming
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And gamification is where Second Ads/ JobFox is putting its efforts.

• Jobs, Ads, TreasureHunt.  JobFox brings it together
• Newcomer: Become a Linden Hunter! Gamification!

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How to start the fishing game

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Fishing, worm sales, worm breeding 

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Elaboration on the fishing game. These people understand how to build a game

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Job ads are posted here, too

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Synergism.  The job ads draw traffic.  The games, Gold Hunters and Fishing, catch people's interest.

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Gold Hunt takes people all over the grid

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I assume the Gold Hunt is selling traffic. And teaching the elements of exploring.  And, yes it is a social game.  There is a group (Linden Gold Hunters) that provides the Gold Hunters a chat line.   So they can be anywhere on the grid and still talk. The group has over 2600.  Sounds like it is working.
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Here is a statement by the company:
ADS long term goals and mission statement
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"creative, inovaitve and fast growing virtual enterprise"
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"developing social games on this platform with a goal to solve currently biggest problem of virtual world Second Life which is low players/resident retention." 

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