Gamification Nation

Welcome to this week's question of gamification. On this question, I get asked a lot by parents, "What are my kids learning on video games, on computer games, on mobile games?" "Should I limit their time on it," is typically the second question. "I am worried about my kids playing too much." It's a very frequently asked question by managers in many organisations with children at home. They see that their children are playing and playing a lot, and I suppose with the World Health Organisation, you're marking gaming as a disorder as well. There's a need to explain why and what the case may be with games and what it brings or doesn't bring to your children or young people that you know. The first thing I will say is as a person growing up, my parents were quite protective and we were not allowed games at all in the house. So when I was growing up, I was always borrowing somebody else's games in school in order to play. In fact, I think at one stage my dad thought that Pong was going to blow up the television. A