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Trick r Treat - Michael Dougherty Interview Video

• Jul 30, 2009 from becmur
  'X2' and 'Superman Returns' screenwriter Michael Dougherty makes his directorial debut with 'Trick 'r Treat,' a horror/thriller starring Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, and Lauren Lee Smith set to hit stores on DVD in October 2009.

SCVNGRs Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck

• Aug 25, 2010 from JayOatway(Jay Oatway) in *
  Some companies keep a playbook of product tips, tricks and trade secrets. Zynga has an internal playbook, for instance, that is a collection of concepts, techniques, know-how and best practices for developing successful and distinctive social games. Zyngas playbook has entered the realm of legend and was even the subject of a lawsuit.
  SCVNGR, which makes a mobile game with real-world challenges, has a playdeck. It is a deck of cards listing nearly 50 different game mechanics that can be mixed and matched to create the foundation for different types of games. Ive republished the accompanying document below, which should be interesting to anybody trying to inject a gaming dimension into their products.
  Rght now, that should be a lot of people. Every six months or so, a set of features sweeps across the Web and every site and app feels the pressure to adopt it. Weve seen this with social, geo, and now game mechanics. Of course, all games on the Web have some sort of game mechanicsthose elements of game play which make them fun and addictive. But game mechanics are spreading to all kinds of apps, most famously Foursquare (which makes you check into places for badges and rewards). At our Social Currency CrunchUp in July, we had a panel which explored how game mechanics are invading everything. (One of the CEOs on the panel was SCVNGRs Seth Priebatsch). Every site from Mint to the Huffington Post now has some sort of game mechanics.
  SVNGRs playdeck tries to break down the game mechanics into their constituent parts. Some elements are as basic as achievements, status, and virtual items. But there are also more complex ones such as the appointment dynamic (a player must return at a specific time and perform an action to get a reward, like in Farmville), free lunch (a player gets something because of the efforts of other people,like in Groupon), fun once, fun always (a simple action that maintains a minimum level of enjoyment no matter how many times you do it, like Foursquares check-ins), and cascading information theory (give out information in the smallest dribblets possible to keep players guessing and moving forward). SCVNGR employees are instructed to memorize the flash cards. Now you can too. There will be a quiz.
  SCVNGR Game Dynamics Playdeck
  
  Guide To This Document: This list is a collection of game dynamics terms, game dynamics theories that are interesting, useful and potentially applicable to your work here at SCVNGR. Many of them have clear applications within the SCVNGR game layer (progression dynamic, actualization), many of them dont yet (status, virtual items). Many of them are just interesting for your general education on game dynamics theory (epic meaning, social fabric of games). Many of these game dynamics concepts are well known and are sourced from all over the internet and from researchers such as Jane McGonigal, Ian Bogost and Jess Schell and articles on gamasutra (which I highly recommend reading). Others are used exclusively internally here and wont make any sense outside of HQ. Along with a link to this document, you will have received these dynamics in a set of flash cards. Please memorize those. If youre on the engineering / game-design team you can access our internal game dynamics visualizer (with the most up to date dynamics) through your account. Download the SCVNGR app for iPhone& Android (if you havent already) and start playing. Find places where these game dynamics exist or places where you could implement them by building on the game layer using our tools, or others.
  1. Achievement
  Definition: A virtual or physical representation of having accomplished something. These are often viewed as rewards in and of themselves.
  Example: a badge, a level, a reward, points, really anything defined as a reward can be a reward.
  2. Appointment Dynamic
  Definition: A dynamic in which to succeed, one must return at a predefined time to take some action. Appointment dynamics are often deeply related to interval based reward schedules or avoidance dyanmics.
  Example: Cafe World and Farmville where if you return at a set time to do something you get something good, and if you dont something bad happens.
  3. Avoidance
  Definition: The act of inducing player behavior not by giving a reward, but by not instituting a punishment. Produces consistent level of activity, timed around the schedule.
  Example: Press a lever every 30 seconds to not get shocked.
  4. Behavioral Contrast
  Definition: The theory defining how behavior can shift greatly based on changed expectations.
  Example: A monkey presses a lever and is given lettuce. The monkey is happy and continues to press the lever. Then it gets a grape one time. The monkey is delighted. The next time it presses the lever it gets lettuce again. Rather than being happy, as it was before, it goes ballistic throwing the lettuce at the experimenter. (In some experiments, a second monkey is placed in the cage, but tied to a rope so it cant access...

Trick-Or-Treat? Boy Finds Meth, Cash In Candy Bag

• Nov 04, 2008 from pogojoe(Cameron Collie)
  Police in Ramsey, Minn. say a 7-year-old boy got more than he expected in his Halloween bag this year. Someone dropped 2.2 grams of methamphetamine and $85 into the bag of Lars and Shelly Brosdahl's son. They found the drugs and baggie of money after he dumped out his Halloween candy.

Trick Or Treat With Timmy - Hidden Camera Halloween Prank

• Nov 02, 2008 from exfilms(KC)
  Practical Joke - Fake Trick Or Treater: Little Timmy is our four foot tall dummy all dressed up in his halloween costume holding a bag of candy. Armed with a couple of hidden cameras and a wireless microphone we set off to pull pranks in the neighborhood with our fake kid trick or treating.

Gmail Priority Inbox: 5 Tips for Better Productivity

• Aug 31, 2010 from mashable(Mashable) in *
  With the launch of Priority Inbox, a radical new way to sort mail, Google has hugely changed the way you can process and manage email. As Gmail Product Director Keith Coleman says, Once you go priority, you never go back.The set-it-and-forget-it solution has actually existed in various states of completion for years, dating all the way back to pre-release versions of Gmail. The feature was picked up again 18 months ago, and today we can finally experience it for ourselves.At its core, Priority Inbox is an algorithmic solution to email overload. Gmail attempts to automatically process your email by factoring in variable such as who the email was sent by, how many people it was sent to and the keywords included in the subject and body of the message.You can use Priority Inbox with its out-of-the-box default settings, or you can tweak it to your liking by using the plus and minus symbols atop the inbox to teach Gmail which emails are important.Weve also identified a few more complex tips for those of you looking to maximize productivity and use some of the less obvious features of Priority Inbox.1. Prioritize FiltersWith Priority Inbox, Google has also enhanced the functionality of filters. This means you can define whether or not your filters are important and tell Gmail how to automatically process them in your new inbox.When creating or editing a filter, you now have two new options: Always mark it as important or Never mark it as important. The former option will ensure that email messages meeting the criteria of your filter will always show up as important and hence in the Important and unread section. The latter option will ensure the opposite; its a perfect way to create and manage your own rules for less-than-important messages youd rather not waste the time of teaching Gmail to ignore.2. Customize SectionsPriority Inbox presents you with three default sections: Important and unread, Starred and Everything else. These are great starting points for working with the new view of Gmail, but you can also tweak what each of the sections show. Theres even a hidden fourth section that you can create and define, if you so choose.Next to each section title is an arrow. Click it to view a drop down menu of available options for that section. Here you can adjust your preferences for each section. Should you wish to view all Important messages instead of just the unread ones, you can specify that here.You can click More options to use the section to view messages with a particular label. You can also reconfigure the Starred section to show all Starred conversations, and not just the ones still in your inbox, from the More options menu. Further, you can specify how many messages to show per section: 5, 10, 25 or 50 for each section.To display the hidden fourth section, navigate to settings and select Priority Inbox. Here youll notice that the number three section is marked empty. Click the Add section arrow to create a fourth section for your Priority Inbox.3. Start With a Clean SlateGmail designed Priority Inbox to be a better system for processing emails. In order to reap the full rewards, youll want to leverage the Starred section as an area for emails that require next actions. Whether you choose to leave the section as is (in inbox and starred), or customize it to show all starred messages (i.e., to include those that have been archived), the best way to start is with a clean slate.To do so, click View Starred to the right of the Starred section, or type is:starred in the search field. Then use the checkbox drop down menu and select All. That action will select all the conversations shown on the page, but to grab all the messages youve ever Starred, youll want to click the Select all conversations option. From there, select More actions and hit Remove star.Its a drastic maneuver that will eliminate all starred conversations, but it could prove incredibly handy in helping you better mange your email via Priority Inbox.4. Use Your Inbox for FoldersJust because youve switched to Priority Inbox doesnt mean you have to completely ignore the traditional inbox. In fact, avid users of Multiple Inboxes, a nifty Google Labs feature, can still employ their inbox-filtering skills to better sift through and organize email.For these users, we suggest you try using the Priority Inbox as your main work center and using Multiple Inboxes in your regular Inbox to highlight action items or semi-important emails in a folder-like fashion. The goal would be to configure Multiple Inboxes to compliment your use of Priority Inbox so you can still keep an eye on messages based on their labels or level of importance.For this approach, enable the Multiple Inboxes feature in Labs, and set up the alternate panes to appear above the inbox. Treat each of the five panes as folders for emails of varying significance. In each pane enter the search query to pull the appropriate emails. Label:xxxx or is:xxxx is an easy to way to create a pane or...