Category Archives for "Gamification"
Today I got the chance to play PewDiePie’s Tuber Simulator.Who is PewDiePie? Since 15 August 2013, PewDiePie’s channel has been the most subscribed user on YouTube, being surpassed briefly in November and December 2013 by YouTube’s Spotlight channel. Holding the position since 22 December 2013. The channel has reached over 47 million subscribers as of August […]
Continue readingWelcome 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 […]
Continue readingMost of the time when I discuss gamification to new people interested in the industry, the easiest and most common examples of gamification can be seen in a non-tangible setting. Gamified CRMs, dashboards or simply points, badges and leaderboards can be easy to describe and imagine. Indeed, gamification add-ons are perhaps the most widely used […]
Continue readingThe 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 […]
Continue readingCorporate 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 […]
Continue readingTomTom 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 […]
Continue readingSince it has been nearly a year, I felt like now is a good time to reflect on my year working with Gamification+. First, the educational. For those unaware, Pete was my lecturer in the University of Brighton. It’s not unfair to say that Pete has taught me all I know about gamification. However, this […]
Continue readingThe third gamification twitter hour, using the #gamificationhour happened on the 28/06/2016. It was created to debate the size of the gamification market. In this twitter hour we introduced statistics that showed the size of the gamification market. However, many figures in relation to the size of the market were outdated by up to five […]
Continue readingThe Offical Gamification World Congress 2016 – Madrid OverviewGWC is the biggest conference regarding digital engagement where art, technology and games get mixed together to redesign the way we do business and society. The best international speakers and companies from all around the world bring to GWC the latest methodologies, projects and trends to boost […]
Continue readingGamification does wonders for engagement around the world. It helps demotivated employees find the motivation that they need in a negative environment to help them be more productive. In a form of a positive feedback loop, employees are satisfied with their new found success and productivity that they continue to work happily ever after. What […]
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