The Gamification Report Blog

Day 1 - The Gift at the Center of the Tree gamification instructional design learner persona Dec 21, 2025

Most training programs are beautifully decorated trees.

They’re full of content, tools, timelines, platforms, and good intentions. There are modules, frameworks, and checklists hanging from every branch. From the outside, everything looks polished and complete.

And yet, learners still disengage.

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12 Days of Christmas: Learning Gifts Shared with Gratitude and Generosity gamification instructional design learning and development Dec 19, 2025

At Sententia, we believe learning should feel human.

That belief shows up in how we design experiences, how we teach gamification, and how we show up for our community. Our guiding values are simple and intentional: be gracious, be grateful, and be generous.

This season, we’re putting those values...

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When “Play” Becomes “Strategy”: Finding the Soul in Gamification corporate training gamification instructional design Nov 04, 2025

It started with a post in our GamiCon inner circle from Christian Gossan about Harvard Business Review’s recent release: Press Play: Why Every Company Needs a Gaming Strategy, by Bastian Bergmann.

The description promises an “eye-opening look at the rapidly rising growth of gaming” and how companie...

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Pieces of Eight – A QuickStart Design Adventure adult learning gamification instructional design Sep 09, 2025

The legendary Spanish Reale, or “Piece of Eight,” has fueled pirate lore for centuries and was once the premier trade coin of the world, valued by kings and coveted by pirates.

At Sententia Gamification, our three levels of certification are anchored in a pirate tale of exploration and discovery. N...

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The Power of Unreasonable Hospitality corporate training gamification gamified events Apr 23, 2025

Following the powerful insights in Chapter 1, we continue our GamiCon48V book study journey through Unreasonable Hospitality with Chapter 2—centered around the transformative power of mindset. Will Guidara challenges us to go beyond reacting to needs and instead lead with intentionality, care, and a...

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The 4 Best Gamification and Game-Based Learning Projects for Adult Education in 2025 adult learning gamicon gamification Apr 16, 2025

There’s no debate. If you want to see the future of learning, these four projects are it. Chosen by a panel of expert judges at GamiCon48V’s Throwdown Competition, these award-winning designs are not just creative—they’re transformative. Each one tackles a real-world challenge in adult education and...

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Unreasonable Hospitality in Action: How We Transformed GamiCon48V accessibility gamification gamified events Apr 15, 2025

The Power of Unreasonable Hospitality: Lessons from Chapter 1

I was so impressed by Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara that we used it as a guiding principle for GamiCon48V. Our Sententia creed—generosity, graciousness, and gratitude—felt perfectly aligned with Guidara’s philosophy, but his b...

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