The new security clearances and ID badges challenged by the scientists were ordered to fulfill a Homeland Security Presidential Directive ordered in 2004 by President George W. Bush.
Even single player games can become social when the right infrastructure for community and social interaction are built around them, including high score leaderboards, achievement badges, challenges and simple message boards, as Kongregate, Addicting Games, MiniClip and MindJolt are demonstrating.
All in-game items initially available as pre-order content were also made available as downloadable content on 31 May 2011: two suits, the Broderick and the Sharpshooter; two guns, the Nickel Plated Pistol and the Chicago Piano Gun; and the Badge Pursuit Challenge, challenging players to collect badges placed around the game world.
He sidled up to a young man with a "Free Milo" sticker on his badge and challenged him in conversation.
Incorporating points, badges, levels, challenges, leaderboards and achievements is a straightforward way to drive consumer engagement, even when the underlying activity isn't intrinsically enjoyable.
Its competitors and allies, from Gowalla and Yelp to Miso, Hot Potato and my own startup, beamME, have been evangelizing the value of points, badges, levels, challenges, leaderboards and achievements as an easy and powerful way to get consumers to engage with a product or service.
Challenging authority becomes a badge of misguided respect.
Completing a project leads to a digital badge and the opportunity to move toward more challenging activities.
With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of The Red Badge of Courage.
The girls in the troop have designed their own badge, called Challenges to Opportunities.
