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Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right

Google TechTalks · talk · Watch on YouTube

Game designUX & UI designPsychology & human behavior

What it is

A Google Tech Talk by Sebastian Deterding on gamification. It looks at what points and badges get wrong and what lessons game design offers for non-game applications.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters recommend it as a thoughtful take on doing gamification and game design well.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2012, last 2014

What HN commenters said

  1. “what Sebastian Deterding is saying about gamification ( )”

    Gamification talk connected to creativity and motivation themes.

    espeed, 2012-04 · Recommendation · in “John Cleese on how to be creative”

  2. “Saw a presentation a while ago that hooked me”

    A presentation that hooked the commenter.

    gizzlon, 2012-07 · Recommendation · in “Gamification: The Art of Attracting and Keeping Users”

  3. “getting it right can make really powerful games”

    Talk on getting gamification right in game design

    ultimape, 2014-11 · Recommendation · in “Screeps – the world's first MMO sandbox strategy game for programmers”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: gamification, game design, motivation, engagement, ux

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