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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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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…
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In business gamification, adding game psychology and game mechanics to a work related process, typically and also advisably takes a bit of narrative. Especially for learning, the hero’s journey is often chosen as a a way of telling a story where your end-user can be the hero, whether they are…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: advanced gameplay When designing gamification solutions, we tend to spend a lot of time designing the journey of attracting people in and then engaging them and making them experience fun and joy along the way. What I have found hard in most…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Navigation Navigation is key for all games and equally for enterprise software. Most games have an introductory tutorial with glowing choices and arrows to guide you through the next steps. Some consoles come with their own controllers and having the motor skills…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Lure With Pokemon Go continuing to capture the imagination and attention of many, one of the game mechanics can be an interesting tool for use in your business and attract more footfall. The “Lure” option can attract collectible Pokemon to the location…
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Gamification mechanic Monday: Fans Fans are a powerful resource in sports and often you will hear sports people and teams thanking the fans to be the extra player on the pitch. Whilst watching the European Cup in football, fans can also have a negative impact…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Risk If life was a game of chance every choice would entail a risk of potential gain, neutral return or loss. Game play is often built to set players up to take risk, from whether to appear from a dark corner in…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Choice in collecting rewards My partner and I play a lot of games, some for fun and some to test for features as research. While I was watching him start a game, he started with collecting a bunch of rewards and upgrading…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Subjectivity In the past week I gave 8 workshops, which also featured a tamagotchi style app called Stressy, where the objective is keep a worm representing stress alive by entering your stress levels and the actions you take to relax. The gamification…
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Gamification Mechanic Monday: Using too many In a lot of games we find a number of game mechanics and in some even just one or two. What I am noticing that popular games have started adding further game mechanics when their original game goes into…
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Feminine gamification viewpoint: Gamification conversations In the aftermath of the Learning Technologies exhibition I am reflecting on conversations had with several people. We had a steady stream of people coming to the stand and asking about gamification and how it could work for their specific scenario….
