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- Title
Code as Storytelling.
- Authors
Kenski, Rafael
- Abstract
It has been proposed that the concepts of joy and fun have a central status to understand motivation in Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) development projects. This study tries to be a detailed analysis of what this proposition implies and how a massive collaborative project fuelled mainly by enjoyment-based intrinsic motivations can work. The method was creating a careful analogy between F/OSS development and Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and checking its assumptions in a case study of a Brazilian ARG called Zona Incerta. The paper concludes by confirming that the analogy is appropriate and by stating that F/OSS development projects may be motivated by factors usually strictly associated with gaming, such as immersion and escapism.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; OPEN source software; FREEWARE (Computer software); COMPUTER software development; INTRINSIC motivation; ALTERNATE reality games; VIDEO game software
- Publication
iSChannel, 2011, Vol 6, p28
- ISSN
2042-5678
- Publication type
Article