Metablox Memory: Gamification Workshop at The Vault Coworking Space! (2015)
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Author Credibility: Yu-kai Chou
Yu-kai Chou created the Octalysis Framework after studying gamification since 2003 — years before the term entered mainstream vocabulary. As a Human-Systems Architect & Behavioral Designer, his framework has been applied by LEGO, Microsoft, Porsche, Coca-Cola, Salesforce, and MrBeast, impacting over 1.5 Billion Users.
Chou has taught the Octalysis methodology at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Tesla, Google, BCG, and IDEO.
His work has been cited by Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Wired, US Department of Energy, NIST, NSF, NCBI, US Department of Education, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Google Scholar — with 3,700+ more academic publications. Explore his books here.
The Workshop at The Vault
This was the second time I hosted the Octalysis Gamification Full Day Workshop at The Vault Coworking space in San Francisco.
The reason why I used this space is because I was part of the Founders Network, created by a good friend Kevin Holmes. It’s a network of Founders helping Founders.
I asked if anyone had a good venue suggestion that I could use.
Kevin D Smith was kind enough to share his space The Vault with me, and as a benefit The Vault Members could attend too (my workshops can run up to $1000 per person).
For this workshop, it turns out that Verizon sent quite a few of their employees to this event.
Since I was hosting a gamification workshop using the Octalysis Framework, I brought in a lot of fun game props. The Plants vs Zombies Flower and the Final Fantasy VII Cloud Sword was a favorite.
One of the things I did for this workshop is that when people contribute or answer questions, I give them a magnetic dart.
At the end of the workshop, everyone plays a dart throwing game.
Everyone has one score, but if you have more darts you get more tries.
You could see for the whole day, people were eager to get more darts because they were afraid to only have one dart and it wouldn’t even make the board.
That’s Core Drive 8: Loss & Avoidance and Core Drive 6: Scarcity & Impatience working together beautifully.
As you can see people had a lot of fun playing the dart throwing game towards the end.
Even the online audiences (who were in a different timezone and pulled an all-nighter for this workshop) asked if I could turn the webcam and they wanted to see who would win the event.
Towards the end, the winner of the Dart throwing game received an Apple Watch.
However, awkwardly, a week later the winner had to return the Apple Watch because they said Verizon was the company that sponsored them to attend the workshop, but due to company policy, they cannot accept these rewards at the end.
Still everyone had a great time, and I hope by now they have all applied the Octalysis knowledge to all corners of the world!
Related Reading
- The Octalysis Framework for Gamification & Behavioral Design
- What is Gamification? Definition, Examples & Framework
- Loss Avoidance Design: Core Drive 8
- Core Drive 6: Scarcity & Impatience
- Consulting / Speaking / Workshops
- Books by Yu-kai Chou