Want to create awesome games in a compelling and laidback startup that is doing revolutionary work in Gamification? We are looking for a talented and capable game designer to take the lead in building next generation products and engaging experiences for top retailers, brands, and within enterprises on a freelance basis. You will get the…
When considering how to design gamification systems for Generation Y, you never know where you might find effective design principles. Look past standard business and marketing blogs and search through other media channels that are related to your target demographic. You might find gems as we did when we stumbled upon iMOM’s article about complimenting…
The Coursera Gamification course has officially ended its first semester with a total of 8,620 people passing the course to receive a certificate of recognition! In an email addressed to all the students in the course, professor Werbach stated: “This is an unusually high number for a course of this type…” Indeed, given that this…
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. On this week’s show, Gabe answered a myriad of user questions about gamification. Here’s a rundown on the topics covered this week: Gabe talks about his lessons learned with working in gamification in…
Top Trends in Loyalty Last week was Badgeville’s Engage event in NYC and I had the chance to hear Mark Goldstein, CEO and founder of LoyaltyLab, talk about his top 10 trends in loyalty. Gamification is reinventing the loyalty space and it is critical to be aware of these trends as gamification continues to grow…
gsummitX Europe is two days away and in light of our event, we’ve been maintaining a list of some of the top examples of gamification in Europe. Today, we’re announcing our winner: Gamisfaction stole the show with a whopping 120 total user votes and is our top example of gamification in Europe with their gamified twitter client. Using Gamisfaction,…
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 Kes Sampanthar, Director of Media Strategies at Cynergy, The Experience Agency. Here’s a rundown on the topics covered this week: Kes’ beginnings with creating games and Thinkcube How to sustain…
“I picked up the controller and experienced the kind of thrill I imagine people must have had in the 1950s when they heard rock-n-roll for first time. My life has not been the same since.” This was Russell Lovelady, a 23 year old reminiscing how he fell in love with soccer ever since he laid…
Today, Venturebeat reports on a new startup called Top That out of the Cayman Islands. The company, which just launched, bills itself as a platform for any kind of social competition. The design appears to be mostly quite straightforward – it’s a Hot or Not style ranking game. You are given two possible choices and are…
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 guest features Jeff Coghlan, CEO & Founder of the award-winning branded entertainment agency, Matmi. Here’s a rundown on the topics covered this week: Jeff’s origins on how he got into making…
Gamification practitioners are among the most effective people who can keep visitors returning to their websites over and over again. To reward the most frequent and enthusiastic visitors for becoming involved members of their web community, I encourage making “moderating” a prize to be earned. For example, HR gamifiers could consider giving the most enthusiastic…
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. If you missed Gabe’s live show this week, here’s a rundown on some of the topics covered: The Michelin Stars rating system from a gamification design perspective. How to analyze the negative characteristics of…
gsummitX Europe will be happening in exactly 3 weeks at the awesome Nokia House 1 in Berlin from October 24th to 25th. (Isn’t that Nokia Maps fancy?). This marks our first gamification event in Europe and will consist of Gabe Zichermann’s exciting gamification workshops with certification and our famous meetup structure. Get the chance to link…
This is a guest article by Jon Guerrera, marketing nerd and GSummit 2012 Speaker. When it comes to wine, points matter. In a revealing article published in the Wall Street Journal, Leonard Mlodinow – author of The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives – points out: “According to a 2001 study of Bordeaux wines, a one-point bump in Robert Parker’s wine…
Just a fun fact for this lovely Friday. In 1919, Raymond Orteig offered a prize of $25,000 for the first nonstop aircraft flight between New York and Paris. The Orteig Prize was the early 20th century equivalent to X PRIZE’s Ansari Challenge. Competitions like these that are used for grand innovation are fantastic examples of…
