Gamification 101: The Psychology of Motivation

Hello Will,

Glad to see your comment again.

I certainly believe there should be easy to use technology. Complexity is less of an issue, because good gamification procedures can always break complex tasks into a series of simpler tasks. In fact, that is the subject of the next post.

I believe you can get many specific designs / implementations of gamification elsewhere. So I don't want to just copy and paste them here. Rather, I want to talk about the underlying principles. You can think of them as some kind of design patterns. They are just higher up, and more abstract, like the principles harmonics in music. If you truly understand these principles, than you can create infinite number of implementation from different combinations of the basic principles that suites your specific needs.

If you have some implementation that are proven to work, please feel free to share them here.

Thanks for your comment again. See you next time.