Gamification Nation

Welcome to this week's question of gamification. My name is An Coppens. I'm the show host of the Question of Gamification podcast and the CEO and founder of Gamification Nation or aka chief game changer. Today's question of gamification is: what makes gamification fail? Now, first thing, one of my mentors told me at one stage when I was saying, Oh, I don't want to talk about failure, I think failure is bad. And I do, I do have some hang ups talking about failure. I think they're private things I do in private. I don't necessarily want the world to know, he said, "Yeah, but failure is, your first attempt in learning" (First Attempt In Learning =FAIL) If we look at failure as finding ways of how something doesn't work. Then we are also accepting that, we are learning. We are not perfect as we come out, day one, which is also a good starting point, because most of us had to learn the hard way on how to do something right and how things have gone wrong. The podcast this week, therefore, focuses on what makes ga