June 17, 2026
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Gamified Design Review: A In-depth Analysis Of Duolingo

Andres Solis29 mins

Duolingo has become a hot topic in recent reviews that underline both its pioneer path in the demonetization of online education, as well as its success rate since it first launched. Without a doubt, its gamified design plays a significant role in this success, which itself has obtained the attention of investors interested in its expansion. Duolingo is an online application currently available for use in 21 different languages, offering a free learning experience for 13 different languages.

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Victor Manrique on Teaching the World Gamification Design

Ivan Kuo01 mins

Victor Manrique is a prominent gamification community member, author of EpicWinBlog, and professor of Iversity’s Gamification Design MOOC (also free!) who joined our weekly Gamification Revolution webshow to talk about teaching gamification design to the masses. He is joined by Gabe Zichermann to talk about his experiences teaching and discussed:

  • Differences between game design and gamification
  • Philosophies behind teaching a gamification Design MOOC
  • Learning other disciplines to strengthen gamification
  • Balancing game design

And much more! Watch their full interview below to get all the talking and be sure to join us this Thursday for our next episode featuring Sascha Goto of McKinsey to discuss his work in bringing gamification into IT Management. Click through to get show reminders!

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5 Key Design Factors for Long-Term Engagement with Gamification

Victor Manrique2112 mins

Did you ever lose track of time because of a game? And have you ever asked yourself how you ended up spending 4 hours playing Candy Crush?

Games are one of the most engaging things that we can find because they involve and fulfill almost all of our main human motivators and happiness factors while creating so much funbut some very special ones have this stickiness that makes us want to play them for a long period of time.

But…why?

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