ludify

present singular third person ludifies · participle present ludifying · participle past ludified · past ludified

1. To make into a game or into something that encourages playfulness.

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

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

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   This aggressive 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 diminution apparent in the movement to ludify work, particularly in the Arco Wand ads.

   1999, William A. Gleason, The Leisure Ethic, page 194

   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.

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