Waze is Gamified Driving Waze is an immensely popular GPS app that is changing how we navigate traffic through crowdsourcing real-time traffic and road info. Receiving an average five star rating by thousands of people, its fans have taken the mundane experience of driving and turned it into an enjoyably immersive adventure with a rewarding … Continue reading How Waze built its Craze through Gamification
(Below is a manuscript snippet of my book, Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards. Please subscribe to the mailing list on the right to order the book when it launches. This post may be moved into a Premium Area after a certain period of time). The First Gamification Site that I was Addicted to One of the most … Continue reading How eBay and Amazon Wield Gamification Techniques
Earlier I wrote a post on how Eugene bashed me online, using aggressive language like “Scam” and that my work is “scientifically flawed to the point of absurdity and it must go.” I then did a full critique of his book too, just like he did mine, and he decided to call me “criminal” because … Continue reading A response to Eugene
Gamified Training in the Corporate Workplace The corporate workplace is a harsh place. Well, harsh as in very few employees wake up every morning excited to go to work. More often than not, employees simply attempt to survive through the dreadful week of deliverables, reports, and politics, so they can finally have fun on the … Continue reading Gamified Training in the Corporate Workplace
(Below is an unedited manuscript snippet of my book: Actionable Gamification – Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards. If you like this post, you will LOVE my book). Parenting Gamification: Your Parents are Bigger Than You! Parenting is generally motivated by two Core Drives in my Gamification Framework Octalysis: Core Drive #2, Development & Accomplishment (reward … Continue reading Gamification Theories in Parenting: Epic Meaning & Calling
An Octalysis Analysis of Momentum – The Journey Today’s Octalysis Analysis is brought to you by our very own Octalysis Explorer, Mike Finney! Note-taking can be boring. Many times one starts a personal journal and then stops because it is not fun and thus not sustainable. Momentum takes a boring note-taking task and turns it … Continue reading Guest Post: Octalysis Analysis of “Momentum”
This Workshop is officially over and a huge success. Read about it here! If you have been frustrated that all my talks, my videos, and my blogposts are all cover the same basic foundations of Octalysis, and really want to learn more about deeper level Octalysis and Gamification Design, this is your opportunity. This is … Continue reading Finally. The First Full-Day Octalysis Gamification Design Workshop
