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Jesse Schell on The Pleasure Revolution

Natalija Knaidele02 mins

In late 2013, Gabe traveled to 12 cities worldwide for GSummit Global, a series of full-day workshops and meetups to bring GSummit closer to gamification fans. As a part of GSummit Global, we also released 10 new webinars and videos by gamification and engagement professionals. We will be releasing them publicly as we keep counting down to GSummit 2014.

Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games, explains why “gamification” is only the tip of a much larger iceberg that is influencing all of society, and he will go into some detail about best practices for using pleasure to improve the motivational design of a wide variety of experiences.

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Jesse Schell: Games Will Lead the Future of Engagement with Pleasure

Ivan Kuo22 mins

In the 21st century, it turns out that the principles for designing videogames have become the principles for designing everything. In this talk, Jesse explains why “gamification” is only the tip of a much larger iceberg that is influencing all of society, and he will go into some detail about best practices for using pleasure to improve the motivational design of a wide variety of experiences.

Key Takeaways:

  • Gamification” is about the creation of pleasurable experiences for the purposes of improved motivational design.
  • Pleasure is powerful, complicated, and contextual.
  • Five important keys to improving motivational design are appeal, engagement, effortlessness, uncheatability, and disembarrassmentation.

Watch GSummit SF 2013 Keynote speaker Jesse Schell in his full talk below. Be sure to also subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest videos from GSummit SF 2013 as they’re released. You can also download a copy of this presentation by downloading it here.

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