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Tpmsfcstudent2019 (talk) 20:35, 6 October 2016 (UTC) Thomas McGuigan

                                                                                                                                      Draft for Wikipedia Article: Revisions/Add-ons for Gamification

                                      Gamification is more than just about the use of digital technology to improve one's overall personality and repertoire as an individual. Although the term was not coined until 2002, the idea about gamification has existed for more than 5,000 years. In 3100 B.C., the Egyptians created a game called Senet. This is a board game which involves a race between two players on a rectangular board where one must make it to the end before the other player does. Whoever won was believed to have a more successful life, a better future, and a better afterlife than the other player will have. This is where the idea of self-betterment in gamification was established. Today, this involves further developing your ability to implement technological and other skills where you can improve your knowledge about your surroundings in the external environment and about all of the features on the internet. If you can complete these types of tasks you will receive rewards such as medals, badges, likes, shares, and more. Overall, gamification and playing games is about improving your ability to use technology and receive feedback on how to use and do things better on the internet and improve as a person. Lastly, accomplishing goals in the form of gamification improves our self-esteem and gives us a feeling of achievement.

                                      One industry where gamification is highly valued and used is in the music industry. This method is used to promote one's work in music and have the opportunity to stream music on a website and app like Spotify where one can view music and keep it if they want for about $5 a month. Gamification in correlation to music is mainly used to help people understand the underlying messages behind works of music and develop their overall identity relating to the art. First, music gamification will allow people to discover the music genres and artists they favor. Other benefits of music gamification on websites like Spotify include being able to add music to your cultural identity, get points for liking music that was created and for music you made yourself. People can also receive badges if people like their music on websites like Spotify and win competitions against other people on music websites. One topic which connects to everything already mentioned here is the term reflexivity. This word indicates that music shapes one's taste in musical works, their cultural identity, and their overall persona as a human being. Another relevant point of this word is people should not have to fear being unique from other people just because of the type of music they choose to favor.

                                     Having an evaluation for music gamification is one of the most important aspects of ensuring people are mastering the basics of creating, performing, or understanding music in general. The website company, Indaba Music relates very well to this. This is a website which allows people to view music for free and participate in contests such as song remixing. Through the use of gamification, Indaba Music has given musicians the chance to promote their work, compete in competitions, become famous, and have different roles in the music industry. This can range from being a professional musician or a teacher of the art, a cultural producer, a peer critic, the ability to establish a personal network, and the opportunity to be a consumer. Cultural producers are the people who promote their practices and rituals through making and distributing their music for public viewership. Peer critics are people who make either positive or negative criticism about one's work of music. These people can collaborate on a music website to help each other promote the further improvement and success of their work. Although online music competitions may seem great, their is a flaw to the process. A researcher by the name of McCormick has concluded that music competitions are unfair because they do not help to find the next generation of great artists and they are harmful to the musicians who actually deserve to have their work recognized or become famous. This is true in some cases because a judge panel's final decision in a music competition is not always true in determining who the best musicians are. Leaderboards should be used instead to track the progress of all musicians in an online music environment because it is based on the opinion of the public and allows musician's to be recognized without the opinion of only a few people.

                                    Besides the controversy that exists with evaluation methods in music progress there is also controversy that exists in the use of digital badges. On some music websites they are used as a symbol of honor and on other websites they are used as an evaluation method of one's performance. In the music company Indaba Music, badges are used as a mark of one's progress in music overtime. The four badges they used were association, quality, specialty, and activity badges. Activity badges were rewarded to the users who completed educational music activities online, the specialty ones were given to those who completed big challenges, the quality ones were granted to those who won big contests, and the association badges were given to the Grammy U members who completed the internship the program offered. Based on many studies of sociology and psychology in the 2000s, badges motivate the desire of musicians to further their success in creating and promoting music and to build up their reputation as music artists. Although badges are meant to be a symbol of one's musical success in this case, they do not always prove how successful one is in the music market. This is indicated in a 2012 survey from Indaba Music. Badges can also be used as an evaluation method where music critics can comment on your work to give you feedback on what you should do to improve in creating and promoting your music. However, this strategy with badges is also not an effective way to determine one's success in the online arena of music. In conclusion, what people must understand is judge panel decisions in music competitions, badges, and other traditional forms of measuring one's success in making and promoting their music in the online environment do not always show how successful one can be in the digital music environment. The discovery of how successful a musician is is shown in their willingness and perseverance in making and distributing their music to get it noticed by the audience.

                                    Creating eLearning games with the element of unity is another important topic about music gamification. In online games, gamification is based on the elements of camera, character, and controls. People can use gamification to create their own games where people can develop a new skill or form of knowledge to use in life. This includes creating digital objects and scripts which compose the functioning of the game and the role of all of the elements that exist within it. This is all done to test a gameplayer's ability to learn the mechanics on how to create or play a game. Quizzes are a good example of this. These are games which test one's knowledge of a particular subject. An example of a game program with quizzes is Global GameObject. When creating or modifying your game you can decide what the terrain should look like, the types of objects you want to use, and the difficulty of your games. One app that is used to do this is Level Logic Object. Another function of gamifying your platform involves applying animations. One feature which enables this to happen is Inverse Kinematics. This function involves changing the body parts, appearance, and the movement components of a work after it is animated. This is useful for modifying the aesthetic, emotional, and other forms of representation of a character in a work of animation. In the program Unity3D, users can use the IK method to add visual graphics to their software. Two other features of animation which are essential to learn in eLearning games are FSM and character scripts. FSM allows you to alter the settings and visual representation of an animation and the character scripts which add to the functions, appearance, and overall presentation of characters and visual works. One more element which makes eLearning useful and fun is it rewards players with points if they complete games and answer questions correctly where they have to complete goals such as mastering a particular skill.

                                   Further on, in an article titled "Validity Evidence for Surgical Improvement," the invention of the app SICKO shows how the practice of surgery can be more easily learned in a digital environment. Sound decision-making is the main skill a surgeon must develop when taking on the rough obligation. In this game, people receive hands-on experience on what the everyday job of a surgeon is like. The objective is to complete missions which involve surgical procedures and if you complete them you will be rewarded with points. After you complete a mission you are given feedback by a professional in the field to help you improve for the future. This game is useful and convenient because it can be accessed via the internet on any mobile device and can be played in a reasonable amount of time. Besides mastering sound clinical and operative judgment, SICKO also teaches it's users how to develop effective use of time management, multitask between two or more patients, and how to use your cognitive abilities to improve your awareness about the unpredictable events that could occur in the surgery room. When you earn points in this game, your score can be tracked on a game log which marks your overall progress in learning about surgery and how to deal with it. In conclusion, sound-decision making should be a skill that must be mastered in all fields no matter what you want to do. 

                                   Gamification is also applied to questions of right and wrong. These are called ethics. Being ethical when making and promoting content in a digital environment is important because it will reflect on a company owner in a good way where they can be seen as an individual who is truthful in the presentation of their content and wants to encourage people to understand the truth behind the messages of their material. 

                                   In conclusion, gamification has advanced the U.S. in numerous ways. Although badges, points, other rewards, and competitions are good to have games are made to teach people how to master and apply a specific type of skill to enable them to create and share the work they have made. Tpmsfcstudent2019 (talk) 21:10, 8 October 2016 (UTC) Thomas McGuigan

This is an essay draft which lists some of the things the author of the article should consider to further the promotion of his work. A few suggestions for improvement I would like to make are images and and infobox must be included, the body paragraphs of the articles must have a leading sentence that is simple and defined the topic of the section you're presenting and support it with good evidence, the lead section must be expanded upon to introduce the main topic of your article more clearly, and you should consider adding more important topics which support the purpose of gamification in your article and that are unique compared to the ones you've already used. You can use my essay draft about your article in a link I sent you. Have a great day.

Sincerely, Thomas McGuigan Tpmsfcstudent2019 (talk) 21:37, 8 October 2016 (UTC) Thomas McGuigan