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 Item Design Challenge, 2020
It was time to add new items to the Octalysis Prime store to make the gameplay better for new and endgame users alike.
So, what did our members come up with in our latest Octalysis Prime Design Challenge?
This was another great group of Octalysis Prime Design Challenge submissions making this a difficult decision.
Always a pleasure when your quality gives us the pain of picking.
Based on their thoughtful analysis using Human-Focused Design and aligning that to the business goals of Octalysis Prime, here are the submissions that stood out:
Winner – Iñaki
Finalists: Sergio and Olivier
Winner: Iñaki
Iñaki created the most items which we could potentially see using on the Island, and we will continue to work with him to see which might be implemented from his Alchemy Set, Hunter’s Mark, Magic Scroll, and Spirits’ Stones.
Great work showing how the new items fit into the game loops on the Island.
Finalist: Sergio
Sergio offered Octalysians, a character-based layer for encounters, new information, and boosters to current gameplay, with possibility to add new kinds of gameplay in the future with new characters.
Here is Sergio’s presentation.
Finalist: Olivier
With Olivier’s Spill Filter, Wagering, and Geomon Stroll, there would be new ways to play the game in a non-linear way.
Great pre-work analysis of the Octalysis Prime member hypothesis.
Here is Olivier’s presentation.
Make sure to join in the fun and learning on Octalysis Prime!
Related Reading
- The Octalysis Framework for Gamification & Behavioral Design
- Finalists and Winner of the OP Item Design Challenge
- What is Gamification?
- Design Ripples: The Daily Quest List on Octalysis Prime
- New Design Challenge on OP
- Books by Yu-kai Chou