At this year’s Games for Change, Jesse Schell of Schell Games showed off his company’s newest idea for making chemistry more approachable for middle and high school students — Happy Atoms, a mixed reality, lego-like experience that asks people to explore atom formation through play. G.Co was fortunate enough to speak with Jesse last week…
Revolutionizing the Call Center Workplace One Agent at A Time Last week, we featured nGUVU’s VP of product strategy, Pascal Leclerc to talk about how nGUVU’s platform help to create a better workplace environment for contact center agents. Using a combination of game mechanics, social interaction features and behavioral analytics, nGUVU helps motivate agents to achieve their goals…
Promoting Employee Engagement and Collaboration in KLM’s IT Division Last time, we featured Head of Innovation Technology and Learning, Guido Helmerhorst from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to discuss his team’s recent project, “KLM’s Next Top Model“. With support from higher management, the project aimed to promote employee engagement and interdepartmental cooperation of KLM’s IT division….
Last week, we featured Quantic Foundry co-founder and analytics lead, Nick Yee to talk about Quantic Foundry’s Gaming Motivation Model. Combining social science and data science, Nick’s team was able to decipher users gaming behaviors and motivations through the unique framework.
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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.
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Last time, we featured ShuffleBrain creative director and author, Amy Jo Kim to discuss about her upcoming new product design program, Getting2Alpha. By undergoing this step by step program, Amy explains how it can help accelerate early product design through expert coaching and super charged design toolkit. Registrations for Getting2Alpha are now open for only for this week.
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Last time, we featured President and founder of General Creativity, Robert Tercek to discuss his newly released book, “Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World”. Robert reveals how every aspect of society and economy will be changed with the rise of digital technology and how we ought to prepare to face it head-on.
Last time, we featured President and founder of General Creativity, Robert Tercek to discuss his newly released book, “Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World”. Robert reveals how every aspect of society and economy will be changed with the rise of digital technology and how we ought to prepare to face it head-on.
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Watch the video or listen on the audio podcast below and be sure to catch our next guest, Amy Jo Kim on the Gamification Revolution.
After seeing the results of the Top 40 Gamification Gurus leaderboard in the beginning of the month (I joined the list at #35!), it’s helped me really visualize the passionate people who are working in this industry, as well as the evangelists promoting the idea of engagement with fun design.
I’m certain most of the people on the list have thoughts, ideas, and great information to share with the gamification community and I would like to make these voices heard, which is why I am excited to announce the start of our Gamification Community Op-Ed Program!
The moment a discussion about gamification dips into a deep discussion about game mechanics and what constitutes proper design, it seems inevitable that Jesse Schell’s book, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses becomes mentioned as the official reference to prove someone’s point. Jesse’s long history of working as a game-designer has earned him numerous accolades and his position as the CEO of Pittsburgh’s largest videogame studio.
