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The Collaborative-Competitive Paradox of Self-Gamification
In my first self-motivational game, the 5 Minute Perseverance Game, I pursued a project or activity of my choice for five minutes a day and recorded my score […]
Articles by Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
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Self-Gamification and the Core Gameplay Loops
Self-Gamification and the Swiss Army Knives Self-Gamification is the art of turning our own lives into fun games, of which we are both the designers and the players. It is the application of game design […]
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What playing games and turning life into games can teach us?
This article contains a list of twenty-three lessons learned from games and turning our lives into games. This list is an extended excerpt from the book Gameful Project Management. The extensions are mainly from Self-Gamification […]
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What motivates us when we turn something into games?
Lately, games have been used as inspiration for myriads of innovations, implementations, and beneficial missions in all areas of our lives, as never before. Gamification, for example, taps into games with the purpose of positively […]
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To Play at Work, See What You Do as a Game
One of the most prominent personalities in gamification, Andrzej Marczewski, wrote in his well-received book Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play: Unicorn Edition, “Work is actually very similar to play and even more like games. […]