Application
RPGs to Level Up in Life
While D&D is not a Quantified Self (QS) game, you’re not playing yourself, the mechanisms and experiences within RPGs have definitely informed the QS movement. […]
Gamification
RPGs to Level Up in Life
Ideas
The Game of You – A Real-life RPG
Find out how you could you use the concepts of Stats, Skills and Quests from RPG games to apply to the design of your own life and achieving your big goals. […]
Ideas
What is Gamification?
What makes something “gamified?” How can gamification be used strategically? What are the pitfalls of gamification and how can we avoid them? […]
Application
Photos Alone Don’t do Justice to your Trips
Ramblr specializes in blogging and recording details about mountain climbing and walking because ‘Photos alone don’t do justice to your trips’ […]
Ideas
Play with a Purpose
Is Climate Change always a bad thing? Not if the ‘climate’ is a team culture, and you’re changing it to foster creativity. Meet Creative Climate Change. […]
Ideas
Water Closets and the Gamification of Learning
The WC tells us that excrement is waste, for which the solution is disposal. The way many adults view Play shares characteristics of the water closet mindset. […]
design process
Learning Games – The Challenge of House Rules
It is in overcoming ‘unnecessary’ obstacles that the ‘fun’ of playing is to be had – pleasure derived from overcoming and prevailing. […]
Live sessions
Live Play Sessions – March 2022
Demo of a gamified learning platform and a card game designed to help players to go beyond Agile tools and processes to an Agile Mindset […]
Ideas
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 […]
Ideas
Gamifying Social Action Towards Thriving Cities.
Applying game-design elements to real-world scenarios can increase community engagement by responding to some of our most basic social instincts […]
learning topics
Gamenomics – Gamifying Stock Investments
In this article I explore business innovation anchored around economics and the genius application of gamification for the same […]
design process
Jesse Schell’s Six Questions for Playtesting
The Transform Deck is a deck of 45 cards in five suits. Each card represents a way to take learning content and make it more interactive and engaging. […]
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Review of Gameful Habits – self-gamification
Bartels is the author of numerous books on different facets of her ‘Self-Gamification’ approach to self-help by turning one’s life into games. […]
how to
Games and Gamification as a tool for Social Change
Games make a difference, today more than ever. When people play, they get inspired and open to learn new things while interacting with each other. […]
how to
Unlock Behaviour Change with Games-based Learning
One of the most challenging aims of games-based learning is behavioural change. How can a game-based experience affect the long-term behaviour of players? […]