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How to build great products with game design, not gamification
The truth is, simply incorporating game mechanics and game elements does not make a game fun. Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, behavioral economics, motivational psychology, UX/UI (User Experience and User Interface), neurobiology, technology platforms, as well as ROI-driving business implementations.
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
“gamification” which attempts to use the trappings of games (reward structures, points, etc.) to make people engage more with product offerings. Does it miss the point of games? It is often layered on top of systems that lack the rich interpretability of a good game. A reward structure alone does not a game make.
Raph Koster • Theory of Fun for Game Design
Increasing games’ hit frequency increased the rate at which play was reinforced, and players’ changed expectations were then accounted for in subsequent design innovations, further ratcheting up the rate of reinforcement.
Natasha Dow Schüll • Addiction by Design
The Superhuman “product market fit test"went viral a few years ago, but I think this was a distraction from Superhuman’s even more interesting insight – how to incorporate game design into a productivity tool. This is huge and can basically serve as a roadmap on how to incorporate game design into a NoCode/LowCode platform.