The World is Your Playground

We all have the same brains, so all the sound studies on our motivation and behavior should have a way to converge with each other. The main point of this chapter is not that Octalysis is superior to any other framework, but at least to me, it can be a very useful tool to help comprehend and navigate the other models in behavioral science, games, and gamification. In my own experience, it is both convenient and rewarding to be able to use one framework to analyze them all and help refine our understanding of behavioral design.

There are obviously many other splendid theories and models on human behavior out there. But to make this book’s length manageable for the reader, we won’t be able to flush them all out here.

I highly encourage avid Octalysis Learners who are filled by Core Drive 3 and Core Drive 7 to put on your Octalysis Glasses and study Nir Eyal’s Hook Model, Andrzej Marczewski’s User Types, or Daniel Kahnemann’...