Gamification Nation

Welcome to A Question of Gamification. My name is An Coppens. I'm the chief game changer at Gamification Nation, and the show host for this program. Today I'll give you a health warning. It's a bit of a ranty post or a ranty show, because I read up a lot and I follow a lot of technology newsletters, and funding newsletters, et cetera. A few days ago, one of the newsletters came in and the title read How to Move Beyond Gamification. There was yet another top CEO of a technology company saying how gamification completely stinks and is the world's worst gift to the planet, and you should use game design instead. Intrinsic motivation is essential I found that fascinating, because obviously gamification is drafted and distilled from game design. If you're a game designer or gamification designer who has not studied game design, then I would question what do they base their foundations on? One of the things, and one of the points he went on to make, is that gamification was extrinsically motivated confetti that y