On October 17th 2015, I was invited to give a presentation about gamification of businesses and organizations. Particularly I disclosed the essence of my new book “Playing on the Job” (out in 2016 I hope) – my main model – the ‘Loop of Progress’. The idea of the ‘Loop of Progress’ is that you identify which concurrent processes lead to synergie in your organization and create multi-disciplinairy teams to take part in those processes, rather than letting departments do that. Inspired from FarmVille – I started rethinking business processes and business models, from understanding the gameloop and other game mechanics and applying them to your daily business. In this presentation I explain our GameStorm tool – that we use to develop our serious games and help to start making a change in organizations like the City of Amsterdam, Foot Locker Europe and Vodafone. And – of course – I elaborate on the ‘Loop of Progress’…

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A game to improve your level of ‘healty lifestyle!’ on Facebook. I haven’t played it yet, but hey – I eat my vegetables and fruit every day, run 5 km every week and at least cycle once a week… 😉 Go check it out if you …like…

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Skip the short intro, and jump to Chief Scientist JP Rangaswami from Salesforce.com

It really starts getting interesting after 20 minutes when he starts talking about the 4 drivers people have:

1. Acquire
2. Defend
3. Bond
4. Learn

And the way he sees these elements in game genres, divided in hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs.

I can see the following comparisons based on our most essential drivers:

1. Acquire (greed: posses, collect, own, badges)
2. Defend (need for safety: a roof over our heads, safety, clothing, protection, food, etc.)
3. Bond (social, sharing, relations, interaction, CRM, Cooperative gameplay, teams, network)
4. Learn (skills, competences, knowledge, developing personality, rewards, level-up, XP, progress, etc.)

A lot of inspiration for my next book and a job I am currently working on! 😉

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TED Talks – Simon Sinek about human behavior and shared values and … trust.

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An inspiring presentation by Kellee Santiago (That Game Company) explaining why games could be considered a form of art. That Game Company developed ‘Flower’ – a spiritual game if I may say so for PlayStation 3, currently one of the best downloaded game on the PlayStation Network

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Doctors in Japan get paid when they cure patients…! And not if they stay ill… fantastic!

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>In this presentation from David Perry (Earthworm Jim and Matrix-game).
The data (units sold of World of Warcraft for instance) are somewhat outdated in this presentation from 2008, but it contains two great videos. One about gamedevelopment in the past 30 years and a videobiography of a gamer.

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>Great presentation by Jane McGonigal

Playing games strengthens trust and social structure of communities (collogues and friends)

Herodotus invented playing games to distract people from existing famine and even stopped a war deviding the country in two, playing a dice game for the win and it is ‘proven’ I hope that the Jews and Palestine’s do the same in Jeruzalem and in all the other world-conflicts!

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com

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