Microsoft adds Achievements to Visual Studio software
Get ready with your “slow news day?” comments, because Microsoft has introduced an Achievement system to its Visual Studio programming environment and this is indeed a news story highlighting that fact. Achievements were originally introduced with Xbox 360, but quickly popped up in all sorts of other applications from other outfits. From iOS Game Center and PlayStation 3 Trophies to World of Warcraft, people and companies far and wide saw the logic of incentivising competitive gamers to plug more time into their products. More recently, the wider concept of “gamification” – using game design ideas to keep users interested – has spread beyond the borders of the gaming world and Visual Studio Achievements are just the latest of several new examples. Read more…
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