10 Best Eco-Friendly Apps Gamifying Sustainability [2026]
An eco-friendly app is a mobile or browser app built to shrink your environmental footprint. These are the…
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Black Hat Gamification and the Fall of Plants vs. Zombies 2
Table of Contents Why Plants vs. Zombies 2 Failed to Engage Gamers White Hat Core Drives in Plants…
Left Brain vs Right Brain Core Drives: Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation in the Octalysis Framework
Most gamification fails because designers only use extrinsic rewards. Learn the critical Left Brain vs Right Brain Core…
How Digital Payment Transforms Customer Loyalty Programs
A Guest Post by TechnologyAdvice.com Table of Contents About Yu-kai Chou At the Intersection of Loyalty, Digital Payments,…
How Gamified Badges Can Be Effectively Used
A Guest Post by TechnologyAdvice.com In this first installment of the Business Technology Whiteboard video series, you’ll learn:…
New Trends in Gamification
Twelve years ago, the live question for any leadership team I sat with was whether to adopt gamification…
MindTime: A Player Type Framework
In my centerpiece Octalysis Framework post, I demonstrate how Richard Bartle’s 4 Player Types are incorporated within a…