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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 Next Step: Identify Potential Improvements for Waze

Once we have analyzed the progressive experience of Waze, the next step is to come up with new creative ideas to enhance those 8 Core Drives. For simplicity sake, we will just go through a simple ten-minute Level I Octalysis brainstorm, which would be very instructive, but by no means exhaustive. For disclaimer sake, as of this writing, I have never worked with Waze before so this is not real consulting advice but simply a form of amusing brainstorming using the Octalysis Framework.

The first thing to improve in Waze through this quick analysis is to emphasize the Core Drive 1: Epic Meaning & Calling more. I mentioned earlier that the “Traffic Monster” onboarding image was there in the earlier days, but since then has been replaced by more social-related messages. Even if the company wants to emphasize the “playful fantasy” part of Core Drive 1, they should continue to provide...