Recently an article in Variety brought a lot of unwanted attention to gamification. The article was titled “Netflix Is Testing Patches to Gamify Bingeing for Kids” Reading this, my heart sank, a feeling that...
Ok, quick rant, move along if you don’t care about the future of our industry. I recently read an article, that said the following … gamification, the concept of points or rewards through the completion...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
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...
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