How To Gamify A Conference – part 1
We are very happy to welcome a guest writer on the Gamification+ blog, Fiona MacNeill. Introduction“It’s teaching, with time-travelers, a tight schedule, collaboration and bags of social media” (MacNeill & Latif, 2016a, p. 6). The quote above describes the conference game in one sentence. The sentence is written in a style akin to a movie pitch. It is […]
Continue readingHow Games Work: Blown Away
By now I guess you have figured it out that I mainly play small indie games and I am not a huge fan of games that cost millions to make. Blown Away is another indie game made by a team of two people, an artist and a coder exactly like Super Meat Boy. You can play Blown […]
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GWC 2016 – A Recap
This year’s Gamification World Conference happened in Madrid. A beautiful lively city with loads to see and do. One of those things was the GWC at the theater Goya, a renovated cinema that is mostly used for conferences now. First Day - October 26We met with Pete at 8 in the morning to check out […]
Continue readingHow Games Work: Super Mario Bros Level 1-1
Software On BoardingToday I want to talk about what we can learn from games about how to help people use software that they are not familiar with. My first real full time job after I graduated from university was teaching computer science and business management. I was preparing students for what is called A-Levels in […]
Continue readingHow Games Work: The Elder Scrolls Legends
In the two previous How Games Work (which you can read here and here) I talked about two indie games. Now it’s time to talk about a game that a big studio has developed. I am talking about The Elder Scrolls Legends developed by Bethesda Softworks. The Elder Scrolls Legends is an online strategy card […]
Continue readingHow Games Work: FEZ
Welcome to the second post of How Games Work! Today I will talk about FEZ, one of my favourite games. I heard about FEZ and decided to play it after I watched a documentary about Indie Games. I love watching documentaries. The ones that really fascinate me are documentaries that tell stories about people who […]
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How Games Work: Super Meat Boy
The goal of “How Games Work” is to take a look at games I have played and try to analyse why they are fun to play and what emotions they provoke on people and how.In order to understand Gamification you have to understand what makes games so appealing to people.What motivates us and excites us […]
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The Social Coin – Engaging CSR strategy that works
Corporate social responsibility remains a challenge for a lot of companies. Most have a strategy to reduce their environmental footprint or give money back to their communities but do these acts resonate with the employees of the company? The Social Coin is a company that does just that. It engages employees of an organisation and […]
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TomTom Curfer – How to make your car happy
TomTom Curfer is a new product developed by TomTom Telematics that promises to make you and your car happier. How are they doing this? By using gamification techniques on top of innovative technology. TomTom Curfer is made out of two parts that work closely with each other. First you need to have a car that […]
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