Category Archives for "Case Studies"
19/08/2017
Gamification Case Study: Free Rice
Free Rice is what I call Gamification for a good cause. It’s a project that helps improve people’s lives by letting you play a game.As we know games have this incredible power to engage people and keep them interested in a specific set of actions they perform inside what we call a game space. Performing […]
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15/08/2017
Gamification Tools: Kahoot
Kahoot is a free to use tool that helps you create fun quizzes. It was created for educational purposes and its mainly aimed at students of all levels of education but I think it’s very valuable for corporate use as well. Kahoot was created during a joint project that was started at the Norwegian University […]
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17/07/2017
Gamification Case Study: Neat Streets Campaign
Today I want to talk to you about a gamified campaign that aims to change the way people think about public space. An organisation in the UK called Hubbub is trying to motivate people to stop littering the streets of London by giving them small gamified projects spread across the streets of London.We have talked […]
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06/07/2017
Gamification Case Study: Save The Park
Today I want to talk about another gamification case study called Save the Park. As we know, all gamification projects try to solve a problem in the real world. The problem in that case is that the National Parks Foundation, an organisation that strives to preserve national heritage parks in the United States, lacks money […]
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05/06/2017
- in Case Studies , Gamification , News by Vasilis Gkogkidis
How Games Work: Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
IntroductionToday I will talk about a game the whole world seems to be talking about for the last months, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.I recently bought a Nintendo Switch. The new Nintendo console everyone is talking about and I have to say, the design and the tech inside it, are quite impressive. I […]
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05/05/2017
How Games Work – Tales of the Arabian Nights
Today I will talk about Tales of the Arabian Nights. I want to stick with non-digital games for a bit. One thing I keep noticing during my talks and workshops is that people tend to think about games mainly as video games. That is a very limiting view on games and gamification though. When designing […]
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16/04/2017
How Games Work – Fluxx
Today I want to mix things up and talk about a card game instead of a video game. Fluxx is a card game that I tried last year when I was doing Pete’s ‘Gamification for Business’ elective at the University of Brighton. It’s a super fun game that offers a lot of great experiences to […]
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28/03/2017
- in Case Studies , Gamification , News by Vasilis Gkogkidis
Neil the Little Explorer – A gamified educational toy
One of the things I really like about working for Pete and GAMIFICATION+ is the freedom I have, to travel to different places and arrange meetings with people that I think have created an interesting product or service or want to create something with our help.So while visiting Athens to speak to the Athens Gamification […]
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20/03/2017
How Games Work – The Path To Luma
Today I will talk about The Path To LumaThe Path to Luma is a game that talks about the environment and how we can reverse the damage done to it. Humans have been using natural resources like they will never end. We have been cutting down trees, throwing plastic in the oceans and producing carbon […]
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08/03/2017
How Games Work – Journey
IntroductionToday I will talk about Journey.First time I heard about Journey was from Pete during his elective at the University of Brighton.I immediately knew I would like to try this game out. It looked very pleasing aesthetically and it was supposed to have a great story, two elements that always draw me into a game. […]
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