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Actionable Gamification

By : Yu-kai Chou
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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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Introduction
19
Chapter 18: The Journey Goes On
21
Notes

The First Gamification Site that I was Addicted to

One of the most popular blog posts on my website is a list of the “Top 10 eCommerce Gamification Examples that will Revolutionize Shopping.” At the top of this list is eBay (full disclosure – I worked with eBay on a couple projects in 2013)54.

eBay.com is an online auction site that was founded in 1995, fairly early in the World Wide Web era. It became one of the largest Dot Com boom successes, and as of today it is one of the leading tech companies in Silicon Valley. It is also one of the earliest eCommerce companies that built gamification into its core DNA. If you plan to create a simple, generic eCommerce site, it’s not necessarily intuitive to include a competitive bidding system or a scored buyer-seller feedback interface. Nor is it obvious to provide a “path to level up” through achievement symbols such as Yellow, Purple, and Golden Stars, as well as creating a Power Seller status system...