#happysalmon — Public Fediverse posts

I played Happy Salmon (the original North Star Games version) with two 70+ year old women from our church on Saturday. They both had a lot of fun. Today one of them said that they kept thinking about how much fun she had.

I also taught them and another group Fuji Flush. She also requested that I start bringing the card game to church so we can play it before services during our social time.

I love it when people ask to replay games I've taught.

#HappySalmon #BoardGames #FujiFlush

I just stumble on the article "Gamification makes about as much sense as chocolate-dipped broccoli" by @ASegar
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2021/02/gamification-chocolate-dipped-broccoli/

It resonates so strongly with me. For me #gamification has such a strong manipulative touch, introduces vanity metric and often is based on competition 🤮

And don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of games in a professional setting (and my job)
But as #SeriousGames or playful interventions.

Examples for a Serious Games are emergency drills and exercises. They create a save environment to experience certain elements of reality and enable collective learning.
Are they fun? Not necessarily, or probably not. YOu will experience stress and anxiety like it would be real. But the designe of the Game/simulation can control this. And possibly they are "fun" in hindsight. You have a laugh on what went catastrophically wrong (but nobody got harmed because it was a game)

Playful interventions are "games" or activities which are completely unrelated to the task at hand. They can be used to cause a "reset", let you get away from a intellectual exercise to something physical and through this enable new perspectives or a "fresh start"
Examples would be #HappySalmon or #BodySongs

But not every Playful intervention fits for everyone

I'm looking forward to the @play4agile to discover new possibilities fror both 🙂