February 8, 2026
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Applying Game-Design Principles to Gamification with Jon Radoff

Ivan Kuo02 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every week. Today we’ll be looking at last week’s guest: Karl Kapp, Professor/Consultant at Bloomsburg University and Gamified Learning Veteran.

Be sure to catch our next episode this Thursday, September 5th at 1PM ET/1800 GMT, where we will feature Jeff Atwood, the esteemed man behind Coding Horror and co-founder of StackOverflow. Remember you can participate in the show if you sign-in and RSVP! Signing in will allow you to receive show reminders, ask questions, and even join Gabe and our guest for a live question.

Regardless of where you might stand on the gamification versus game-design debate, each side has many lessons to offer to the other when you consider differences in their design. This week we brought on Jon Radoff, CEO of DisruptorBeam, to give us his input on various facets of gamification design as a game-designer. We take deep looks into story narratives, feedback loop lengths, and many other game design theories as it relates to gamification.

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The Pitfalls of Gamification

Jeff Lopez22 mins

Over the past week, two excellent overviews of gamification have come out that highlight a few of the pitfalls that must be overcome for a successful product or campaign. Michael Wu, PhD is principle scientist of analytics at Lithium. In his most recent post, Michael discusses the inevitable, that players will always try to game a…

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Study Reveals Game Based Training Impact on Weight Loss

Heong Weng Mak03 mins

Anyone with a sweet tooth knows exactly how difficult it is to resist unhealthy foods that taste great. Countless diet programs have been established over the years to try to train people to choose healthier foods and avoid empty calories that pack on the pounds. However, the secret ingredient diet plans may be missing is game based training that has shown promising real-world results that lead to additional weight loss.

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Top Career Opportunities and Jobs in Gamification

Gabe Zichermann610 mins

One of the questions I’m asked most frequently is how to build a career in or with gamification. The industry is growing rapidly, with companies on track to spend over $2.5Bn directly on gamification products and services by 2016, with at least 5,000 jobs created as a result. But because gamification cuts across industries and functions, it’s not always immediately obvious what job title best suits a “gamifier” and what kinds of companies need your skills.

So I’ve pulled together my thoughts on the top job opportunities with gamification, based on different underlying skills/interests.We do know that demand for gamification skills is up 293%, so the opportunities are certainly there.  In some cases these are new job types entirely — in others they are the roles where you should have a significant “bump” in marketability with gamification experience. Regardless of which path you choose, consider earning your certification in gamified design at GSummit in April — it will doubtlessly help bolster your marketability.

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Five Impactful Experiences From Games For Change 2016

Anthony Conta05 mins

Highlights From This Year’s Games For Change Last week, Games For Change had their 13th annual festival at the New School’s Parsons School of Design. New to the festival this year were three featured tracks participants could focus on: the Games for Learning Summit; health and neuroscience; and civics and social change. Gamification.Co was lucky enough to attend,…

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Play the Activity Alliteration Game to Increase Productivity

Monica Cornetti37 mins

How do you make yourself do the things you don’t want to do?

Can you imagine how much less guilt, stress, and frustration you would feel if you could somehow make yourself do the things you don’t want to do when you’re supposed to do them?

I feel your pain. Often, when I am on a speaking tour or designing curriculum, it is easy for me to get so focused on that project, instead of doing other important tasks that will help me grow my business. I put the long-term activity on the back burner.

The result? Empty calendar dates, a website that hasn’t been updated in months, unwritten blog articles, and a net zero new connections made.

That’s why I turned procrastination into a game – and it actually becomes not only challenging, but FUN to accomplish those things that would otherwise be put off. Now I look forward to focusing on and growing my business every day of the week. It goes like this…

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The Gamified Classroom

admin62 mins

Part II: Technology’s Role in a Gamified Classroom. This is the second part of an ongoing series on the role of gamification in modern education by Andrew Proto. For the first part, visit “Part I: the Unique Obstacles Teachers Face“ In every classroom across the country, the technology that we are teaching our students with…

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GSummit Kicks Off This Thursday!

admin01 mins

Our second Gamification Summit will be kicking off this Thursday at 9am! We are proud bring together the leading experts from advertising, healthcare, education, government, media, e-commerce, startups and academia to share knowledge and improve engagement with consumers, employees and ourselves. Though the workshop has sold out, limited tickets remain for the two day event….

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Call it “Reverse-Rypple”: New Startup Allows Employees to Give Anonymous Feedback to Superiors

Ivan Kuo03 mins

Services like DueProps and Rypple (now Work.com) have already demonstrated the power of immediate feedback in the workspace. Anything is better than that awful yearly performance review but what if you had the opportunity to review your boss as well? There is now a new startup that allows employees to freely give constructive feedback to…

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Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play: Walking Through Gamification with Andrzej Marczewski

Heong Weng Mak02 mins

Last week, we feature Capgemini solution designer and author, Andrzej Marczewski to discuss his newly released book, “Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play: Gamification, Game Thinking & Motivational Design”. Andrzej’s new book serves as a guide to using gamification as well the theories and concepts on which gamification is built upon.

Watch the full interview below to learn about:

  • What was Andrzej trying to address in his new book that was previously missing in other gamification literature?
  • How does Andrzej vision of user player types differ when compared to Bartle’s version?
  • Is it possible to develop a test to discover each player style and subsequently merge them together?
  • What are some of the barriers one has to overcome in order to get “buy-in” for Enterprise Gamification inside corporate organizations?
  • What are the recent developments for gamification across Europe?
  • How does Andrzej respond to companies who explicitly states they want gamification but in actuality want a game?
  • What is the origin story for naming the book title?

Special Bonus: Catch Andrzej Marczewski and Gabe Zichermann at the Gamification World Congress 2015 by entering special code “dopamine” to get a special 25% discount on tickets!

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The Relationship Between Customer Loyalty and Data-Driven Decisions: Lessons from Punchtab

Clark Buckner06 mins

During our coverage of GSummit 2014, we sat down with Robyn Hannah (@robynhannah) from Punchtab to discuss the relationship between their company’s approach to customer loyalty implementations and how data driven decisions are baked into their formula. Robyn Hannah, Vice President for PR and Communications at PunchTab, a technology platform enabling brands to engage their customers and gain actionable…

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