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Actionable Gamification

Actionable Gamification

By : Yu-kai Chou
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Actionable Gamification

Actionable Gamification

By: Yu-kai Chou

Overview of this book

Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, user experience, and ROI-driving business implementations. This book explores the interplay between these disciplines and captures the core principles that contribute to a good gamification design. The book starts with an overview of the Octalysis Framework and the 8 Core Drives that can be used to build strategies around the various systems that make games engaging. As the book progresses, each chapter delves deep into a Core Drive, explaining its design and how it should be used. Finally, to apply all the concepts and techniques that you learn throughout, the book contains a brief showcase of using the Octalysis Framework to design a project experience from scratch. After reading this book, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to enable the widespread adoption of good gamification and human-focused design in all types of industries.
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Chapter 10: The Sixth Core Drive: Scarcity & Impatience

Scarcity and Impatience is the sixth core drive of the Octalysis Framework. It is the drive that motivates us simply because we are either unable to have something immediately, or because there is great difficulty in obtaining it.

We have a natural tendency to want things we can’t have. If a bowl of grapes were sitting on the table, you may not care about them; but if they were on a shelf just beyond your reach, you would likely be thinking about those grapes: “Are they sweet? Can I have them? When can I have them?”

Personally, Core Drive 6 was the last Core Drive I learned about and is the one that intrigues me the most, particularly because this core drive can feel completely unintuitive, irrational, and emotionally difficult to utilize.

In this chapter we’ll explore this Black Hat/Left Brain Core Drive, understand its powers, and learn about some game techniques that harness...

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