UKIE, the UK interactive entertainment association published figures today to show that the consumer game market valuation has grown to over £7 billion in 2020, that is a Billion increase since 2018 and nearly a 30% increase since 2019. As an industry the gaming market…
Gamification trends for 2021 It has become somewhat of an annual tradition for me to write up what I see as the main trends for gamification in the world of work. If we look at predictions, forecasts, and everything that involves a bit of…
Merry Christmas to all our collaborators, clients and supporters. We couldn’t have made it through the year without you! I hope you are all staying safe and healthy whilst taking a moment to hopefully enjoy some good company, relax, reflect and dream of all the…
Gamification is still very often misunderstood and simply branded as the adding of some game mechanics to a learning process rather than using it to enhance and play into the learner’s motivation. When we go with the mechanical side of gamification of simply adding game…
Welcome to today’s Question of Gamification, the podcast by An Coppens. And today we have a guest, Andy Robertson, who also goes by the Twitter handle @GeekDadGamer, and he’s a video game journalist and the author of the book Taming Gaming. I’m delighted to have…
Summer of Silence It has been a while since I posted a written blog or a podcast episode for that matter. Normally I would have pre-prepared posts or episodes and make sure they were all scheduled to go-live. This year I really didn’t have the…
Welcome to a Question of Gamification, a podcast where gamification expert An Coppens answers your questions. Today’s question is How can we compete in an unlevel playing field? Today’s question was triggered based on a number of conversations, I was having online and offline with different…
Welcome to a Question of Gamification! Today’s question is, “what have your people been doing in lockdown?” We will take a look at how much they’ve been spending their time on various tools and media, based on the global web index. We will look at…
Welcome to a Question of Gamification. I’m An Coppens the show host for the show and today’s question is one of mine. Are you all zoomed out? Yes. I mean the Zoom online meeting system or in fact, any online webinar, meeting or conferencing tool….
After all the bad rep, games have been getting from the World Health Organisation declaring gaming an addiction and many people blaming the industry for increased violence and more unsavoury things. A game has received US-based Food and Drug Administration approval as a form of…
What does loyalty mean in times of crisis Welcome to a Question of Gamification. I am An Coppens, the show host for this show and the CEO and chief game changer at Gamification Nation. Today, I want to answer the question, what does loyalty mean…
Today I wanted to give you an update of what we are doing in light of all of the lockdowns internationally. As well as all of the loss of business or contraction of business worldwide. Thanks to the same virus. I hope at the same…
