Thursday, February 16, 2012

Gamification of Genealogy

The world has become impatient. People want things now, not later. Games on mobile phones are played in chunks of 15 minutes or less. Doing genealogy is not fast. It takes a long time to get anything meaningful done. I rarely have 2 hours at a time to devote to any single activity. If doing family history can be made fun, quick, and enjoyable, more people will actually want to do it. If I could take 15 minutes out of my day and actually make some meaningful progress in family history, I would be much more inclined to do so. Make genealogy a game, and I'll play it.

1 comment:

Justin said...

Gamifying genealogy is a hard problem. Do you have any solutions? You should check out the Facebook game FamilyVillage. It is the most serious attempt at gamifying genealogy that I know of.