The Gamification Report Blog

In the world of gamified and game-based learning, understanding human behavior is key. The groundbreaking book Games People Play by Eric Berne delves deep into the intricate web of human interactions and the psychological games we play in our everyday lives. Interestingly, the concepts discussed in ...

Jonathan Peters, PhD
Chief Motivation Officer

12 drummers drumming … we made it!  We are on our final day of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways! And it is certainly going off with a bang with our 12 drummers drumming. 

My uncle played the drums in high school. He drove my mom nuts. It wasn’t just h...

Jonathan Peters, PhD
Chief Motivation Officer

Perhaps the bigger question is why would 10 lords be leaping? Is it because of the lizard in the living room? Or a lusty look from a lover? Perhaps they’re competing to be on the leaderboard in a leaping league.  

In learning and development and, to a l...

Monica Cornetti, MS-EDE
President

A great deal of research has concluded that play-based learning is genuinely and positively impactful on learning and development, and one can argue that humans learn best when at least one of these four provisions are present so that learners:

1. Take an active rol
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Jonathan Peters, PhD
Chief Motivation Officer 

What makes your learners tick? 

Gamified and game-based learning (GBL) design are effective tools to make training engaging and fun, because they use the dynamics of games, such as narrative, collaboration, chance, and progress, to tap into learners’ ...

By Monica Cornetti
Chief Engagement Officer, Sententia Inc.

You go through your life following the patterns you’ve grown comfortable with. You do things because that’s the way they’re done. Your routine seems so natural that it doesn’t even occur to you that you’re following patterns at all.

You ov...

My previous post, The Problem with the F Word, explored the self-fulfilling fear cycle and self-limiting beliefs that trap you and keep you from moving there.

In the book Habits Die Hard, authors Anderson and Murphy reference a practice from Buddhist teacher, James Barasz, that you can use to dispe...