Welcome to today's Question of Gamification, the podcast by An Coppens. And today we have a guest, Andy Robertson, who also goes by the Twitter handle @GeekDadGamer, and he's a video game journalist and the author of the book Taming Gaming. I'm delighted to have Andy with us today because we're going to address the question of: is gaming safe for my child? And it's a funny story how we actually met and how it came about, with me tweeting and re-tweeting some information that I sent out around #GetSetGo, a campaign by UKIE, who is the organization supporting the games and digital entertainments ..read more

Welcome to a Question of Gamification, a podcast where gamification expert An Coppens answers your questions. Today's question is How can we compete in an unlevel playing field? Today's question was triggered based on a number of conversations, I was having online and offline with different people and also across different sectors. So I don't think it is actually limited to the gamification world. In fact, I think as side hustlers, unlevel playing fields happen and exist in every walk of life, whether you're a builder and you're coming up against the little man in a van and rogue builders ..read more

Welcome to a Question of Gamification! Today's question is, "what have your people been doing in lockdown?" We will take a look at how much they've been spending their time on various tools and media, based on the global web index. We will look at where have your people hung out and you know, we'll use a few statistical research tools that have given us different insights. Generations at work But, we also look at it from a generational perspective. First things first, and… what have they been doing on mass? Well, in April, they were mainly still searching for Coronavirus updates. People were l ..read more

Welcome to a Question of Gamification. I'm An Coppens the show host for the show and today's question is one of mine. Are you all zoomed out? Yes. I mean the Zoom online meeting system or in fact, any online webinar, meeting or conferencing tool. In this lockdown, and thankfully for many of us, we are coming to the end of the lockdown. Or at least the end of remote working for some of you. For organizations like ours that have been remote from the start, we'll continue to do what you have been doing for the last number of weeks. As in work remotely and we probably see many more companies doing ..read more

What does loyalty mean in times of crisis Welcome to a Question of Gamification. I am An Coppens, the show host for this show and the CEO and chief game changer at Gamification Nation. Today, I want to answer the question,  what does loyalty mean in times of crisis? I will give a bit of a health warning to start with, that this will be a very personal and probably a very honest podcast episode in the sense that what we see all around us is probably the same for most of us. How we see and how we experience what is going on with Covid-19, business, family, friends, is what's different based ..read more

Today I wanted to give you an update of what we are doing in light of all of the lockdowns internationally. As well as all of the loss of business or contraction of business worldwide.  Thanks to the same virus. I hope at the same time that you are staying safe, keeping your distance and doing whatever the World Health Organisation or your local governments or both are telling you to do. The business impact From our business perspective, it has been, to be perfectly honest, a bit of a scary moment because when the lockdown started to take hold of Europe, a lot of our projects were put on ..read more

Welcome to this week's question of gamification. My name is An Coppens. I'm the show host for this podcast and the CEO and founder of Gamification Nation. A question we get always or regularly asked, maybe not always, is what is a gamification strategy and why should I have one? Well. It's one of the first things we will embark on with most of our clients. Whether you design a serious game or design a gamified process. In effect, we always start with a strategy and some of the key questions we want answered in the strategy is why did you choose gamification? Now, strategies typically sits as a ..read more

Welcome to this week's a question of Gamification. My name is An Coppens, I'm the show host and the CEO of Gamification Nation. This week we will follow on from our podcast from last week where we discussed how you could use Monopoly or a board game of any kind as inspiration for your game design for work solution. How to take inspiration from top-grossing games for serious purposes? The question we're answering today is how can top-grossing games be the inspiration for your solution, for your game based solution, basically? To give you an idea, the client that we're working with is operating ..read more

How games inspire us in gamification? We want to pick a game that you all know to illustrate how we work and how it inspires what we do. I often tell our game designers that you can make any game into something that we can use either for learning, for HR, for recruitment, onboarding, marketing, lead generation, etc. Sometimes they frown their eyebrows at me to sort of say, "Well, that actually doesn't work." Or, "We don't know how that could work." Then we tease it out a little bit further. My thinking is always if there is some commonality in the game and in the business problem that we're tr ..read more

Welcome to this week's, a question of gamification. This week, I'm talking about what makes a great learning game. My name is An Coppens. I'm the chief game changer at Gamification Nation, and also the show host for this show. Serious games must still be fun We are working a lot on learning related games, HR related games, and games for all kinds of marketing related business purposes. One of the key things we focus in is both gamification and serious games for business usage. We don't just make games for fun, we want to make games that are fun, but also have a serious objective. The definitio ..read more