4 Experience Phases in Gamification – Phase 2: The Onboarding Phase
(Below is a snippet of Gamification Book: Actionable Gamification – Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards. If you like this blog post, you will LOVE the book. The User Experience of Learning the Basic Skills of the Game Previously, I wrote about the Discovery Phase (Phase I) of the 4 Experience Phases of a Player’s Journey. […]
Gamification and Operant Conditioning
Written by Christine Yee For those of you who are truly interested in creating compelling games, here is something to consider: Should a game be judged favorably because players find it hard to break away from and spend countless hours immersed in it? It would seem so, wouldn’t it? However, it is quite possible to feel […]
How Diablo III’s Broken Auction House Defeated Core Drive 2: Development & Accomplishment
How can you balance an economy? In the early 2000s when Diablo II came out, the internet was not so connected. People would farm items and sell them on eBay for real money (the black market). This was against Blizzard’s terms of use. We know why people spend money to buy virtual goods. Say someone […]
[Octalysis Guest Post] The Alchemy of Ingress
“Ingress is an acceptable lifestyle choice” – @Hosette, R1 How Ingress uses gamification and the 8 Core Drives of Octalysis to engage users (Below is a guest post by Anne Miles. Email yukai[at]yukaichou[dot]com if you have would like to guest post about gamification/Octalysis/Behavioral Design) For the past three years I’ve been immersed in a global […]
Empowering Creativity Through Moral Choices
Creativity through Choices and Consequences By Christine Yee Humans are inherently driven to play, imagine and create. Games that enable the healthy expression of Core Drive 3: Empowerment of Creativity & Feedback, can offer intensely compelling experiences. One emerging and increasingly prevalent game design strategy focuses on providing players opportunities to consider weighty moral choices. This reflection […]
Gamify Your Life – Up For the Challenge?
(New to Gamification? Check out the Octalysis Framework that I am internationally known for.) Gamify Your Life – Up For the Challenge? The last year seems to have gone by pretty quickly. But now we have a fresh new start at a brand new year. Most people are inspired to set some type of New Year’s […]
