The most logical solution isn’t always the most emotionally successful. This article by Angela Self in the Globe and Mail about reducing debt brought up an interesting idea about achievement as motivation that closely mirrors what we know about gamified design. While trying to find a way to get out of debt across multiple credit…
In this recent post on the Cisco blog, Dannette Veale uses common examples to help illustrate what gamification really means – like Foursquare, Quest to Learn charter school, Evoke and Wii Fit. She also quotes Gabe Zichermann and his now famous SAPS model for rewards systems. The article also mentions GSummit and how it sold…
Gabe Zichermann has a new op-ed piece on The Huffington Post that just went up today. It’s called “Can Games and Gamification Fix Washington?” It’s about how the many issues that are currently plaguing the US often seem too vast and overwhelming for any real change to occur. Gamification can be used to engage an…
Ed Note: We’re initiating coverage today on the Gamification of Health, the most requested topic among our readers and a subject of extraordinary importance to us at Gamification.Co. Feel free to send us your article suggestions. – Gabe Zichermann Full-service gyms are currently going through hard times in the US. According to a recent New…
Gabe Zichermann was featured very prominently in an article for The San Francisco Chronicle by Casey Newton that was released this past Tuesday. In the piece, entitled “Online game-based marketing can be big business“, Gabe projects that 2011 will be the “year of gamification”, shares his thoughts on why games are so hot right now…
