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January 30, 2013

The Power of Engaging Game Design with Jesse Schell

Ivan Kuo11 mins

Starting next week, the Gamification Revolution, the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts will be at a new time every Thursday instead of the previous Monday.

You can now catch the Gamification Revolution every Thursday at 1PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT.

Starting next week, the Gamification Revolution, the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts will be at a new time every Thursday instead of the previous Monday.

You can now catch the Gamification Revolution every Thursday at 1PM EST/10 AM PST/1800 GMT.

If you missed this week’s episode, we had the venerable designer and GSummit SF 2013 speaker, Jesse Schell of Schell Games. Watch Gabe’s discussion with Jesse to learn about how making engaging game experiences is the same process for designing any product:



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Be sure to catch our next episode of the Gamification Revolution, airing live on Februrary 7, 1 PM EST. You can also catch Jesse express his expertise in person by catching his session at GSummit SF 2013

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Industrial Strength: Badgeville Showed Triple-Digit Growth in 2012

Ivan Kuo04 mins

Yesterday, Badgeville announced that 2012 marked the company’s second consecutive year of triple-digit revenue growth. They also reported on some of their new partnerships, which include Deloitte, Oracle, Rogers, Samsung, Bell Media, Citrix, Autodesk, Panera Bread, EMC, Marketo, CA Technologies, NBC, Universal Music, Barnes & Noble, Danone, A&N Media and Microsoft. How’s that for a list of prominent companies using gamification?

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Prominent Gamifiers: Jesse Redniss

Ivan Kuo14 mins

Its amazing that the sole act of watching TV has been replaced with watching TV while on your phone/laptop/tablet. And thus the concept of the “second screen” is born. We’ve become such distracted and consumption driven individuals that no one medium of entertainment is enough for our brains. While this may sound like a negative thing at first, nobody really understood the inherent synergy that exists between these two devices if they’re being used to consume the same media together. That is…until Jesse Redniss saw this opportunity and became one of the earliest pioneers of gamification for television media.

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Why China’s Propaganda Games Don’t Work

Sudarshan Gopaladesikan27 mins

China has always viewed video games as a negative influence to society and the social order. In 2009, the Chinese Ministry of Culture banned mafia games, citing that these games embody antisocial behavior like killing, beating, and looting. China has not slowed down on its blacklisting of games, and they have even banned consoles such as the Playstation and Xbox. Contrary to what China’s past actions may infer, they have been actively investing millions of dollars to game companies in the form of grants and tax breaks. However, a new political move targeting the 120 million Chinese online gamers comes with some strings attached to these game developers.

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