Learning about playfulness from Toca Boca
Continueing my investigations into play, I wanted to talk about a few things my kids have been teaching me about just letting go and giving in to the fantasy and the lack of imaginative...
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47 Gamification elements, mechanics and ideas
To go alone with the recent update to my User Types pages, I thought it would be nice to give you a list of mechanics, elements and ideas that can be used to support...
Fun: It’s a funny thing really
I am still in the process of researching fun – but it has been really interesting so far. If you have no taken my quick survey – please do, it will really help me!!...
Play, games, toys, playfulness and gamification
Lately I have been thinking about play a lot. This is probably because of watching my children growing up and seeing how play changes into games as they develop. I have written about play...
What if we could never use the word Gamification again…?
A few days ago on the awesome Facebook group Gamification Hub – I posed the following question. Andrzej Marczewski If the word gamification was banned from all usage – what would you replace it...
Signposting and Gamification
Sometimes, even the best people need to be pointed in the right direction. Signpost next actions to help smooth early stages of a journey. Use “just in time” cues to help users who are...
Gamification Design Thinking
Another day another framework. This time I can’t really lay claim to it though. This is my interpretation of Design Thinking – a very well know framework! I have mixed it with a few...
3 more Gamification tips from games
As I read more and more about what makes a game a game, it becomes more and more clear where things with gamification can and do go wrong. I am not trying to say...
Easter Eggs and Gamification
Now, before you get excited – this is nothing to do with chocolate! Easter eggs in this case refer to hidden surprises and extras (just like an Easter egg hunt when you were a...
Gamification, delayed gratification and rewards
There has always been this common thought that if you have to work harder for something or you have to wait for it, the reward will be all the greater in your mind. Now...
Skill Trees and Gamification
Now that I have redone the User Types, I wanted to run a small series of how elements from games can be used with gamification. If you remember, I look at Game Thinking rather...
Exploring the Player User Type – with archetypes
To finish off my little look at the sub-types from my User Types, I want to take a new look at the Player User Type. I have done a deep dive on this before,...
CaptainUp is back on the blog
I was recently contacted by the guys from CaptainUp (www.captainup.com). For those that don’t know, this is a free / affordable platform for gamifying websites and until recently I had been using it for...
Disruptor Superhero Archetypes!
I love superheroes, I make no apology for that! A while back I did a post that compared my User Types to various superheroes and super-villains. I thought it would be fun to do...
Exploring the Disruptor User Type
As time passes and I learn more, I often re-evaluate my past blogs and ideas – none more-so than my User Types! Now, don’t panic, I am not about to release version 3 –...
