Category Archives for "Gamification"
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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29/06/2017
- in Gamification , News by Vasilis Gkogkidis
Gamification Case Study: Zepp Baseball
In gamification, we talk a lot about feedback and letting people know when they are on the right track to achieve something.Today I want to talk to you about a gamification project that has caught our attention here at GAMIFICATION+. It’s called Zepp Baseball and helps baseball athletes and enthusiasts improve their baseball skills. Baseball […]
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05/06/2017
- in Gamification , News by Vasilis Gkogkidis
Game Prototyping Workshop: Learn more about Gamification
IntroductionToday I want to tell you the story of our latest workshop called Game Prototyping Workshop and how it came to be.When I first started working for Pete, he sent me to a small games convention in Brighton. At the time, we were designing a gamification solution to train managers better, called Manager’s Path. We […]
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05/06/2017
Pete in Gamification Land: How I made my first game
IntroductionIn this blog post I will talk a bit about how I decided to make a game for our website and what that process and experience was like.I always enjoyed being creative. Since a young age I loved LEGO because they gave me the chance to make whatever I wanted. I created my own castles […]
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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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05/06/2017
- in Gamification , News by Vasilis Gkogkidis
Gamification Project Design Framework
IntroductionToday I will talk about something different. First of all, you should take a look at our consultancy page https://gamificationplus.uk/gamification-consultancy/. There is a new button that prompts you to play a game in order to get a copy of our gamification project design framework. That’s the subject of this blog post, the new framework we […]
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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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