Choosing the wrong rating or review system can kill your product. Before spending dev time building out any particular one, consider all your options! Here are the top eight: 1. Detailed survey Many don’t know how Rotten Tomatoes works. Critics give a review based on a certain set of criteria, and an algorithm ends up…
Review: “Reality is Broken”
Jane McGonigal, a digital game designer who earned her Ph.D. in performance from the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, has been recognized as one of the early game designers and researchers that initiated the inquiry of the positive values of digital games in the contemporary society. In light of…
Case Study: waze
Waze is my GPS of choice. If you were to ask me why, I’d say that it gets me to my location fastest (specifically, faster than Google Maps). But we all know that’s debatable. Quite debatable. What’s clear is that the perception of utility, usability of the interface, and the intangible happiness one gains from…
Yu Kai Chou – Gamification Techniques
Congratulations, reader of my blog! You just hit the jackpot. Yu Kai Chou created a framework called the Octalysis Framework. Link to my article about it here, it was covered in one of my gamification meetups. However, Yu Kai Chou has hidden his gamification techniques randomly throughout his books, videos, and website. In other words,…
Epic Calling and Meaning – Summary of Gamification Meetup #7
We went over Actionable Gamification by Yu-Kai Chou, and his Octalysis Framework. This is a framework based off psychological motivators. After going over the basic framework (below), we applied it to Facebook. Then we went over Tyler’s dating app called 2Truths, and Chelsea’s soon-to-comegamified gym! Below are the 8 pieces of the Octalysis framework with simply a…
Octalysis Framework: Summary of Gamification Meetup #6
We covered three things: 1. Overview of Octalysis pillars 2. Concentration on the first pillar. 3. Looking at Personal Projects. Here are our notes from yesterday: First, we filled in everyone on the basics of the octalysis framework… 1. Epic Calling and Meaning – this entails two parts: A. Striving to be apart of something…