Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
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Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
#2I don't understand the leaderboard aspect of it because, if I'm reading the article correctly, each of the achievements is a one-off, which means that the leaderboard will quickly be dominated with a few developers who happened to hit all of the achievements.
Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
#3I don't understand the leaderboard aspect of it because, if I'm reading the article correctly, each of the achievements is a one-off, which means that the leaderboard will quickly be dominated with a few developers who happened to hit all of the achievements.
Also, a lot of these rely on analysis of the code. In that case, will every team member who has the code checked out receive every award that is unlocked by the project?
Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
#4A quick look at the list:
- Field Master: Have 100 fields in a single class.
- Overload: More than 10 overloads of a method.
- Potty Mouth: Use 5 different curse words in a file.
These are funny, but they miss what achievements are good for - encouraging new users to adopt good behaviours.
Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
#5Oh man, someone actually did this? I remember reading a hilarious thread about this a year ago. http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-...
Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
#6A quick look at the list: - Field Master: Have 100 fields in a single class. - Overload: More than 10 overloads of a method. - Potty Mouth: Use 5 different curse words in a file. These are funny, but they miss what achievements are good for - encouraging new users to adopt good behaviours.
I'm sad they don't have an achievement for writing >= N lines of code and having it compile (and not crash) on the first try.
Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
#7This ongoing trend of "gamification" is starting to drive me up the wall. Seems like some brainiac in marketing won some battle to sink their claws into the VS team. And I feel bad for them, because I'd hope they'd want to be spending their team actually improving VS (which is still an excellent IDE) instead of adding a layer of crapola lipstick.
What next -- achievements for the taskbar?
Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
#8github has this for month: http://coderwall.com/
Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
#9This ongoing trend of "gamification" is starting to drive me up the wall. Seems like some brainiac in marketing won some battle to sink their claws into the VS team. And I feel bad for them, because I'd hope they'd want to be spending their team actually improving VS (which is still an excellent IDE) instead of adding a layer of crapola lipstick. What next -- achievements for the taskbar?
This was not done by the VS team. It is an extension developed by members of the Channel 9 team inspired by this post on someone's blog -> http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-... , and the associated Reddit thread.
Re: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard
#10This ongoing trend of "gamification" is starting to drive me up the wall. Seems like some brainiac in marketing won some battle to sink their claws into the VS team. And I feel bad for them, because I'd hope they'd want to be spending their team actually improving VS (which is still an excellent IDE) instead of adding a layer of crapola lipstick. What next -- achievements for the taskbar?
This is a great way of driving people out of teams with poor code quality.