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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
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Introduction
19
Chapter 18: The Journey Goes On
21
Notes

Faking your Way to Virality

Another good marketing example that utilizes Core Drive 7 is Adobe’s Real or Fake campaign. In 2008, Adobe wanted consumers to understand the power of their Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator products. With the new Facebook platform seen as a potential marketing tool for reaching college students, a campaign was created on Adobe’s Student Facebook Page called Real or Fake. Each week five bizarre looking images were posted and college students were challenged to determine whether the images were real or fake.

The participating users were extremely motivated by the mystery of whether these photos were actually real or “photoshopped.” The motivation to participate was also heavily driven by Core Drive 3: Empowerment of Creativity & Feedback. “This can’t be real. It has to be fake. But it looks so real… even the shadow and textures are perfect. I need to find out.”

As a result, this...