ludify

English

Etymology

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Verb

ludify (third-person singular simple present ludifies, present participle ludifying, simple past and past participle ludified)

1. To make into a game or into something that encourages playfulness.
   • 1999, William A. Gleason, The Leisure Ethic, page 194:

     This agressive male containment (where, figuratively, "if only you were a man for just ten minutes!" becomes instead "I'll make you into Peter Pan forever!") recalls the simultaneous containment and diminutionin the movement to ludify work, particularly in the Arco Wand ads.

   • 2021, Ingrid Richardson, ‎Larissa Hjorth, ‎Hugh Davies, Understanding Games and Game Cultures, page 1871:

     It also brings a playful lens to familiar neighbourhoods—reinventing them in ways that 'ludify' urban spaces.

   • 2023, Luciano Floridi, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, page 38:

     So, at this stage, and it may well be a permanent stage, there is no way to 'ludify' brain tumours into a 'constitutive-rule game' such as chess.