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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

Octalysis of the Waze Navigation App

Beyond just a high level Octalysis overview of an experience, we can also analyze the experience separately throughout the 4 Experience Phases of a Player’s Journey: Discovery, Onboarding, Scaffolding, and Endgame.

Somewhat inline with the Speed Camera Lottery, another sector in “gamified driving” is the navigation app Waze. As mentioned in Chapter 5, Waze is an immensely popular GPS app that is changing how we navigate traffic through crowdsourcing real-time traffic and road condition data. Often receiving an average five star rating by tens of thousands of users, its fans have taken the mundane experience of driving and turned it into an enjoyably immersive adventure with a rewarding social experience.

Let’s take a deeper look into how Waze accomplishes this by applying Octalysis to its design and mechanics.

Most navigation systems simply provide directions as a means to an end (Function-Focused...