Some Gamification Videos and a bit of Fun
I’ve been busy making videos of late, here are the last few. Some tutorials, a few rants and a bit of fun 🙂 Player Types and User Types in Gamification Ethics in Gamification Failure...
Category: Rants
Bits ‘n’ Bobs
A few side projects and stuff for you to enjoy. Gamification Memes: A compilation of my memes over the last few years Other “Wisdom” Memes… Some music I’ve been recording for fun...
Misunderstanding Gamification and Over-Promising
A quick mini-rant Gamification is not about making games. It is about using elements of games in other areas to increase motivation, engagement, fun (at times) and to encourage specific behaviours. This may include...
Punishing some by rewarding others
RANT ALERT! Fairplay is very important to me and it annoys me when I see things that, in my mind, show a lack of fairness. Recently my daughter was legitimately off school with illness....
Making a Free To Play (F2P) Strategy That Doesn’t Suck
As a parent, Free To Play (F2P) games are the joy and bane of my life in equal measure. Kids these days seem to be near impossible to entertain for any length of time....
Honesty and Transparency
Today I have been reminded about the importance of Honesty and Transparency when dealing with people. If I ask a question from someone who is in a service industry, what I hope for is...
Shipping, Fantasy vs Reality and the Dark Tetrad
I recently discovered a really strange phenomenon called Shipping. This is the creation of fantasy relationships between celebrities that may have been in films together or on TV together. For instance there are a...
4 Ways Extrinsic rewards bit me in the ass
Not long ago I wrote about my daughters school and their usage of certificates to incentivise reading. The idea is that if a child reads a certain amount each half term, they can get...
Generation Y all the Fuss?
There is a lot of noise about Generation Y or Millennial’s, those born after 1982. They are seen as some kind of strange new evolution of the species, the saviours of our universe. One...
How do you deal with being wrong?
Not really a gamification related post today, though it could pertain to the gamification community! It happens to us all at some point. Someone says something, you see something, read something, hear something –...
Critisism – well a rant really.
This is a rant – you will find no insight here.. Move along… I’ve written about criticism in the past, but wanted to bring it up again just for fun. A couple of days...
Gamification: Novelty is not enough
Recently the following video has been doing the rounds. It shows a great idea to get people to stop at crossings when the red light shows. The idea is that rather than a boring...
Indirect Incentives: Good or Bad in Gamification?
First things first, what do you think of the new blog theme? Playing with the Hueman theme to see how it goes. I have also removed a large number of poppy uppy things! Recently...
1 element that makes Godus sticky, but suck as a game
In this article I am discussing the iOS version of Godus I love god games, games where you get to influence the development of a world. Sim City, Civilisation and of course Populous we...
