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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Random rewards If you have ever tried to surprise a friend, family member or person you love with a surprise bunch of flowers or a a gift, then you already fully understand the concept of random rewards. Now, the question is when…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Free Lunch In sports tournaments when one of your opponents drops out for whatever reason, injury, illness, or other, players receive a walkover or bye to the next game. When a friend enters a competition and they win a prize for them…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Flow One of the most frequently used models relating to gamification and keeping engagement is the concept of flow. Flow can be described as creating enough challenge for the level of skill of a player in order to keep them evolving without…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Rolling rewards Rolling rewards unlike fixed rewards have more luck or odds attached to earning them, but the potential win of this reward is substantial enough to draw people into the game and when won to possibly make them a fan for…
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Quests A quest is a very useful game mechanic that can be applied in multiple environments and can be implemented without the need for investment in technology or software. [video_player type=”embed” width=”640″ height=”360″ align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″][/video_player] A quest by definition is a journey or expedition…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Dashboard In every game you will find a dashboard, which tracks your activities and progress. In business it is rare to see how we are doing and what the options are. Our progression on a career path is not usually tracked by…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Absolute Rankings The top performers in any field will enjoy being listed in rankings when rankings are a clear reflection of performance such as in a sales environment or sports. For top performers this tends to be a motivator when on the…
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Social media is one of the reasons why more and more of us are becoming used to gamification in our applications. The likes and emoji are like a social ranking system, the daily prompts are calls to action, the endless scrolling feeding our curiosity, etc….
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Point systems Point systems make a lot of games work and are essential in the work we do in gamification. They allow you first and foremost to give feedback to the player on how they are performing. From the game design perspective…
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Gamification mechanic Monday: Appointment dynamics In multi player online games having to come together at a set time to go and attack a rival tribe is an example of the appointment game dynamic. Usually you rely on everyone to show to have the best potential…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: To avatar or not to avatar Avatars are often a game mechanic to allow personalisation in a game, you can choose it’s gender in some cases and adapt it’s appearance, from skin and hair colour to dress code typically. When it comes…
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At a recent networking event, when people found out I worked on gamification, I kept getting the question on what were the best game mechanics for which scenario. It was great to hear a lot of the people there, had heard of gamification and wanted…
