Incremental Game Mechanics Applied to Text Annotation
summary
An incremental clicker built for part‑of‑speech annotation called WordClicker maps jars of word categories to token labels, includes a shop and upgrades that speed or slow token flow, and deliberately uses a non‑blocking loop. Deployed on Kongregate, Newgrounds and itch io, it achieves average session length 27m17s and 45.85 judgments per player (power‑law contribution). Raw accuracy is low in the unfiltered data but trends suggest learning; aggregation or player filtering is needed for production use.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:39Design Constraints
- 2:30Interfaces
- 2:54Cost
- 3:20Infinite Gameplay
- 3:47Accessibility
- 4:38Summary
- 5:39Basic Game Loop
- 6:34Word Clicker
- 7:22Experiment
- 8:09Results
- 8:53Learning
- 9:28Questions
- 13:05Final Question
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