Gamification: Pianists vs Computers
A thought that spawned from the back of a great Quora discussion about the role games designers in the world of gamification. You can program a computer to play the most stunning works of...
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Rewards and Reward Schedules in Gamification
Anyone who has read a few of my blogs will, by now, be under the impression that I am not the biggest fan of rewards. Well, that is not entirely how I feel. Those...
Harry Potter and the Gamification of School
When I was a kid a school (long before Harry Potter had been thought of – and gamification for that matter…), teaching methods generally sucked. A teach stood at the front of the class,...
Driving the wrong behaviours with rewards.
I have written about this whole thing quite a lot already, but I have some new insights based on things I have witnessed recently. We know that extrinsic rewards are meant to demotivate people...
The danger of extrinsic rewards on motivation – What I learned from my 5 year old
Another quick one, prompted by an interesting behaviour exhibited by my daughter today that taught me rather a lot about extrinsic rewards. I have mentioned before the research that has been done on motivation...
A Question of Motivation
A very quick blog this week, whilst I work on a few deeper ones (possibly) An argument that is pretty constant in Gamification, is that of Extrinsic vs Intrinsic motivation / rewards. Things like...
Is Gamification a benign form of manipulation and does it matter?
Let me expand on this. A discussion started on twitter when I mentioned in passing to a couple of gamification people, that really gamification is often a benign form of manipulation. It became an...
When is gamification not gamification?
A few different conversations this last week have triggered a little built of thinking. This usually leads to me brain dumping a blog – and this is no exception. Don’t expect to find any...
Gamification: Some More Views
First of all, thanks to everyone who has viewed or downloaded my Gamification presentation. It has had over 600 views on Slideshare, which is fantastic! Looking forward to my next chance to do the...
Plea to the Games Industry to Embrace Gamification and Get Involved
With Eurogamer already fading into the deepest recesses of my mind, there is one thing that has stood out. Just how much the games industry dislikes gamification. The general feeling was that everyone doing...
Gamification and Stuff: Presentation for the Gamifier Meetup
Well, as promised to those wonderful people who came to listen to me preach about Gamificaiton, here is the slide deck – all wrapped up in a pretty slide share thingy. Download the presentation...
Gamification: Questions that keep me awake at night!
This week there is no real blog post for you I’m afraid. I am in the middle of trying to produce a talk for next week and enjoying the Coursera Gamification course. Instead, here...
Does fun have a place in Gamification – Video Blog
Hi all. Well, this is my first try at a video blog. It took far to many goes and as you can see, the version I had to go with has terrible lighting and...
The Original Gamified Social Networks – History Teaches us about Gamificaiton
Seeing the news that Badgeville was to gamify social networks got me thinking about the old days. Social networks are nothing new. Back in “the day”, we all used to use forums (and bulletin...
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