Your Parents are Bigger Than You!

Some people mistake Octalysis and Gamification as technology solutions that are expensive to implement. In reality, they are design systems focused on motivation. So if the activity relates to motivation, you can apply gamification to it. Just like games – you can play with a complex 3D Virtual World technology like World of Warcraft, or you can play Hide-And-Seek, something that requires no technology at all. Children these days have both World of Warcraft and Hide-And-Seek available, and the last time I checked they still enjoy Hide-And-Seek.

Because of that, we can even apply Octalysis Gamification to things a bit more abstract, such as parenting. Parents often use two main Core Drives to motivate their children to behave well - Core Drive 2: Development & Accomplishment (reward when the child behaves), as well as Core Drive 8: Loss & Avoidance (punish/ground when the child does not behave).

However, the Chinese...