Encourage Play, Don’t Force Fun
I’ve said it here many times, you can’t force people to have fun. Putting a pool table in the coffee room, forcing everyone to play an online game and join a leaderboard, team building...
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Play Games, Enjoy Games and be a Better Gamification Designer
Over the year my opinion on the need to love games to be a good gamification designer has fluctuated. In the early days, I was more flexible on the idea. It was all about...
Forced to have Fun
Every office I have worked in has, at some point, tried to do something “fun” with their employees – usually whether the employees want it or not and often with the best of intentions! A...
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...
Fun and Gamification?
Often when people talk about gamification, they speak about adding fun to everyday work related tasks. The whole Mary Poppins “A Spoonful of Sugar” analogy pops up regularly. Anyone who has stuck with this blog...
What’s in a Name Like Dave Rage?
A question that I am asked quite often, relates to my chosen Twitter name – @daverage. Before we get into that, I want to clear one thing up. It is Dave Rage, not the...
Learn to Problem Solve, Play and Have Fun – Not Code
I keep seeing articles stating why everyone should learn to code. The same message is aimed at adults and children, pointing to a new type of digital literacy needed to survive in the new...
Do Things Just Because They Amuse You
Anyone who knows me, knows that I often do stuff simply because it amuses me. A good example of that is the title of my book, Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play. I went...
Broken Brain and Some Poems
So, here it is. Writing and publishing the book have broken my brain a little! I am working on two blogs at the moment though. One about publishing a book for under £50 ($80)...
What Pure Joy Looks Like
Anyone who has read my blog will know that my daughters are an inspiration to me on a regular basis. All of me research into play was initiated by watching them as was my...
Mary Poppins was full of crap
Ok, this has been bugging me for years. In Gamification, there are many things you hear again and again. It’s not about games, points are bad, intrinsic motivation is king. There are more, but...
It’s time for you to grow down a little
One of the really obvious things that has come out of looking into play and fun, is how resistant us grown ups are to letting go and doing things that seem, on the surface...
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!!...
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...
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