The Importance of Disruptors
If you have looked at my User Types HEXAD or read any of my work (hey, Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play is a great Christmas present to yourself or anyone you love….), you...
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Amazing Interactive Mind Map For The User Type Hexad
This is really cool. I didn’t make it either, Sinan Sensivas did. It is an interactive mind map of my Hexad and game mechanics. It’s really fun and an interesting way to learn it...
Introduction to Gamification Part 8: User Types
There are many tools available to gamification designers to help them with their designs. One of the most useful for me, for reasons I will go into here, is the concept of User Types....
What I am Learning from Playing Fortnite with my Daughter
I have finally caved and given Fortnite some proper time. It all started when my 12-year-old daughter noticed it was on my PC. I had downloaded when it first came out, but after one...
User Types HEXAD: What Links Philanthropists to Socialisers
A new paper looking to validate the User Types HEXAD Survey has just been released from the HCI Games Group (Games Institute, and Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo). You can find it...
Considering Age and other factors in Gamification
When speaking to people about gamification, I often hear comments along the line of “Yeah, but games are only for kids”, or “Yeah, but the age groups who work here are not interested in...
What is the Best Gamification Framework?
Gamification frameworks, like many other industries, are all over the place. Everyone has one and probably argue theirs is the best. Hell, I’ve got loads dotted around the site! But, which one is actually...
2017 Yearly Roundup
It’s that time of year again, where I list out all the posts of the year! It has been an odd year for me, with a couple of major job changes for me and other...
The Trouble With Types
Player Types and User Types, I’m not gonna lie, I love ’em. I imagine that is obvious considering I have spent so long making my own! However, it’s time for a bit of a...
User Type HEXAD Lenses
One of the cool things about working at Motivait, is having access to some very cool and very intelligent people! One of those is a chap by the name of Carl Eacott. We met...
The Periodic Table of Gamification Elements
Just a quick post to officially introduce the Periodic Table of Gamification Elements. This is all 51 of my Gamification Mechanics and Elements in a pretty table 🙂 Buy the poster here https://www.redbubble.com/people/gamifieduk/works/25949573-periodic-table-of-gamification-elements My next...
Correcting the Misconceptions Around the Philanthropist User Type and Purpose
One of the things that happens when you create popular frameworks and the like, is that people like to interpret them to fit their needs. This is why I created the User Types Hexad...
Learning From Games: Battlefield 1, RAMP, User Types and Awesome Gaming
Over Christmas, I started to play Battlefield 1, a game that I was especially looking forward to given my love of the series. I’ve not had as much time to play video games as...
The Mercenary User Type
With the news that a hacker group is using gamification to try and get people to engage in DDoS attacks, I got to thinking about what type of user may wish to engage with...
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