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Jane McGonigal Explains Why We Should Be Grateful For Games
“From zero to peak experience in thirty seconds flat – no wonder video games caught on. Never before in human history could this kind of optimal, emotional activation be accessed so cheaply, so reliably, so quickly.” This passage is taken from Jane McGonigal’s Reality is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How they Can…
Gabe’s Gamification Revolution with Michael Hugos
Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE every Monday at 1pm ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. This week’s show features Michael Hugos, Managing Principal at SCM Globe and Author of the book, Enterprise Games and a very special guest appearance by Hugos’ wife and cat. Here’s a rundown on some…
Phil Maher’s New Rules On Gamification Ethics
Recently we were asked by some readers to have a discussion about the “Ethics of Gamification,” and it wasn’t the first time we’ve been asked about this. I have avoided this question previously because I didn’t know where to start. When someone asks me “What about the ethics behind gamification?” The answer which comes to…
GSummit 2013 – The Insiders View
I love working to plan the speaker roster for GSummit every year. It’s tough, but incredibly rewarding. With the support of our amazing in-house team, the board and our community, we’ve been able to pull together a list of experts that continues to amaze and delight me each year since that first, sold-out talk by…
GSummit SF 2013 Announced: Featuring Will Wright and Tim Kring as Keynotes
Yep. It’s here! GSummit is back and it’s our best event yet.
Babson Brings Their NYC Based Alumni Together with Gamification
The #1 School for Entrepreneurship (both Undergraduate & MBA) is definitely on top of their game in engaging their community with the hottest topics & strategies in business. This time up, GAMIFICATION. Babson College, the Babson Alumni Club of NYC, and GamificationCo delivered a stellar evening to the Babson Alumni of NYC this past October…
Marketo and Badgeville to hold Virtual Marketing Event on Nov. 14
The Marketo and Badgeville collaboration known as The Marketing Nation has announced their virtual event taking place on Wednesday, November 14 beginning at 8AM PST, designed for those who want to improve their marketing capabilities. The event will be a half-day event featuring 15 sessions and will showcase over 30 companies’ experiences with marketing platforms. Join…
How Trials Evolution Redesigns Leaderboard Potential
Gamification warns designers about the dangers of using leaderboards as a measure of success for its members. Citing its loss of meaning for players if they aren’t first place, many cap the potential of the leaderboard as a meaningful game element for all. Trials Evolution is a side-scrolling motorcycle game with an excellent physics engine. Trials Evolution’s…
Gamification in Australia Next Week
We’re less than a week away for our first event in Australia–gsummitX AUS. This Monday & Tuesday (12-13 November), we’re bringing together top experts in gamification, engagement & loyalty for two days. Day 1 will start off with the only gamification workshop that offers a gamification certification, facilitated by Gabe Zichermann. Day 2 continues with an…
Gabe’s Gamification Revolution Review: Episode 15
Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE every Monday at 1pm ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. This week’s show features Nir Eyal, GSummit Speaker, Stanford Lecturer, and serial entrepreneur. Here’s a rundown on some of the topics they spoke about: Gabe’s opinion on the Coursera coursework Nir defines his…
Bunchball Announces Gamification Rockstar Roadshow Event in San Francisco
Bunchball has announced its inaugural Gamification Rockstar Roadshow event in San Francisco on December 4th to showcase some of its best success stories and product demos from a number of their customers, including Adobe, Bluewolf, CrowdFlower, Zamzee, and Course Hero. The event will also be demonstrating some of the specific use-cases of Bunchball’s Nitro platform,…
Putting Player Types into Context: Killers in Halo 4
Amidst all the arguments about gamification’s off-putting nomenclature, trivializing problems, and it not being about playing games, it would be a mistake to not at least consider the study of games as a point of reference to better understand gamification. If you can accept Richard Bartle’s player types as a model for gamification player design,…
Gabe’s Gamification Revolution Review: Episode 14
Each week on the Gamification Revolution web show, Gabe Zichermann answers all your burning gamification questions LIVE every Monday at 1pm ET/10am PT/1800 GMT at http://gamification.co/live. This week’s show features Kevin Werbach, Professor at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and professor of the Coursera Gamification Course. Here’s a rundown on some of the topics they spoke about:…
Gamification Certification is Now Also Available for Coursera Graduates!
Did you receive a certificate of completion for scoring 70% or above in the Coursera Gamification Course? If so, bolster that achievement by getting an Engagement Alliance Gamification Certification at Level One. This certification includes: A graphic you can display on your website/Linkedin profile letting everyone know you have completed the basic knowledge requirements for gamified…