h a l f b a k e r yI heartily endorse this product and/or service.
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
Please log in.
Before you can vote, you need to register.
Please log in or create an account.
|
This is a design principle that combines gaming and
productivity, so that the user is never not engaged. Where
there is a webpage to wait for to download, the gaming piece
kicks in and makes you believe you are solving a little puzzle
or interacting with another series of buttong/dialog boxes
that are fun to do and that take up the time before the page
downloads or whatever.
Google Chrome's dinosaur game
http://mentalfloss....ts-you-play-offline
[notexactly, Dec 17 2016]
[link]
|
| |
There are things like SETI@Home, that use your computers (otherwise) downtime, but this seems to be more "use the operators downtime" instead. Although the protein-folding thing might do this... |
|
| |
[+] and, if the user stops playing, files get corrupted, viruses start to dowloaded; sorta like "Speed". hmm... I think I figured out Windows 10. |
|
| |
[-] Work tools to live not live to work tools. |
|
| |