Human Computation for the Zune

Zune Social Program Manager Jessica is working on new social feature to add to Zune Social. This
new feature was decided to be a music trivia game where users try to guess what music people were talking about based on words, phrases, etc. provided by other people of the community.

Alarms in my head went off about a Human Computation Tech-Talk (see below) I watched last week by a recent Ph.D graduate from Carnegie Mellon.

I immediately signed up on Zune.net to add my input on this subject to the forum since the design of this feature is heavily operated based on community contribution. Here's what I posted...

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You rock Jessica!

But Please, please, please if you want to design a better game that's fun and addicting which in turn improves music search quality using human brainpower for free (which is what this is really about)then watch the following video in
its entirety...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtFroEJN1nI

Designing atop Luis' principles of Asymmetric/Symmtretric games is the way to go in my opinion.

My $0.02,

~= Chris =~

P.S. I can't wait til I make my next visit to the U.S. so that I can buy a Zune 80 (red). I'm an American living in Brazil (oh the horror of electronics down here).
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And here's the video:

Dark Messiah: Elements (XBox 360)

I don't know how I let this game slip by me. This looks like Oblivion dungeon fighting gone bloodlusty insane!

I want my Figurines!

I haven't been a big fan of figurines since I was a kid; I always found them to be kinda childish. However, times have changed and I have a craving for figurines from some of the great games I've played. The figurines are a reminder to me of all those great moments during gameplay and also inspire me to be creative in my own work. Check them out...

BioShock Big Daddy!


Gears of War (Marcus Fenix)


Assassin's Creed (Altair)


Splinter Cell (Sam Fisher)


Devil May Cry 4