2015 Archives - Gamified UK - #Gamification Expert

So, as is tradition, here is a round up of 2015. What a year!!! Research papers, Gamification World Congress, a new book, poetry and loads of exciting projects have made this a most excellent year. Between you and me, next year will be even better!

As with every year, the User Types Hexad has been really popular, but this year my most popular content by far has been the 47 Gamification elements, mechanics and ideas – an old post I pinned! Shows the power of the homepage 🙂 Other big hits this year have been my reaction to Gartner forgetting about gamification (The Hype is Over – Gamification is Here to Stay) and my essay on the 4 essential neurotransmitters in gamification!

Here is to 2016 Gamified Gamification Lovers!

1) Gamification User Types Dodecad… It’s Christmas after all!

Posted on December 16, 2015Ideas come from the funniest of places. Take this Dodecad thing. I had an email conversation with someone who liked my types, but wanted to change some of the names. I was not into the idea (the names took a really long time to work out!), so politely declined. That’s fine, so is the fact… More…

1) Gamification User Types Dodecad… It’s Christmas after all!

2) Revisiting the Gamification Code of Ethics

3) Grinding to Mastery and Flow

4) Gamification World Congress 2015

5) How I wrote and Published a Book for Under £50

6) Being Kind When Discussing Gamification

7) Dark Personalities and the User Type Hexad

8) Broken Brain and Some Poems

9) The Book is Out

10) How to get Gamification wrong

11) What Pure Joy Looks Like

12) Value to the User vs Value to You

13) What would you change?

14) Shipping, Fantasy vs Reality and the Dark Tetrad

15) The Dislike Button – I was wrong

16) 10 Minute Shake Up from NHS and Disney

17) Are Mario, YouTube & My Little Pony killing my Daughters Imagination?

18) The Hype is Over – Gamification is Here to Stay

19) Balancing rewards against effort in Gamification

20) Mary Poppins was full of crap

21) Bribes, Incentives, Bonuses, Awards and Rewards in Gamification

22) Accenture makes a move I was talking about in 2013

23) A week of memes

24) 4 Ways Extrinsic rewards bit me in the ass

25) Virtual Economies

26) No Blog Post – New Book

27) Hidden in the User Types Hexad

28) Amazon: Getting customer care wrong

29) The Green Button – A Short Story

30) Getting rewards right. Recognise, don’t Bribe.

31) Surprise and Delight with Google Photos

32) Generation Y all the Fuss?

33) 5 essential P’s of gamification

34) Flow and Trance – A Conversation

35) Self Preservation – Advice I give my daughters

36) How do you deal with being wrong?

37) My love affair with text adventures

38) 5 Groups of Fun

39) A-Z of Gamification

40) What can comedy teach us about gamification?

41) MINDSPACE – Influencing Behaviour

42) Zombies Run! 5K – Attempting to get fit

43) 7 Deadly sins of making serious / educational games

44) It’s time for you to grow down a little

45) Don’t be afraid to say no to Gamification

46) Emergence: Learning to Love the Unintentional

47) Unleash your creativity with Story Cubes

48) A framework for creating play-like systems

49) Introducing Lusory Attitude

50) Rewarding quality over quantity in gamification

51) Design compelling experiences, not addicting

52) Learning about playfulness from Toca Boca

53) Fun: It’s a funny thing really

54) Play, games, toys, playfulness and gamification

55) What if we could never use the word Gamification again…?

56) Signposting and Gamification

57) Gamification Design Thinking

58) The Challenge, Feedback, Reward Cycle

59) Easter Eggs and Gamification

60) Gamification, delayed gratification and rewards

61) 47 Gamification elements, mechanics and ideas

62) Skill Trees and Gamification

63) Exploring the Player User Type – with archetypes

64) CaptainUp is back on the blog

65) Disruptor Superhero Archetypes!

66) Exploring the Disruptor User Type

67) 4 essential Neurotransmitters in gamification

68) Top posts of 2014