Getting Started with Gamification

Onboarding

Gamification is the use of game mechanics and dynamics in serious applications to encourage better user angagement, empowerment and to give users more control, feeling of mastery and autonomy. Gamification also helps to make achievements more objective and transparent and lead to a fairer world.

Training Level

Here is some material to understand Gamification and its motivation in less than 1/2 hour.

• Wikipedia: Gamification (5 minutes)
• Jane McGonigal: TED  - Gaming can make a better world (20 minutes)
• Understand our goal: Beautiful Images of Videogamers (5 minutes)

Rookie

Leaving the training ground, here is some more material that make you familiar with more terms:

• Recording: [Gabe Zichermann -Fun is the future: Mastering Gamification|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O1gNVeaE4g] |
• Gamification: turning work into play

Advanced

Here is some stuff with information that ties in to what SAP is doing and where we can utilize it:

• Recording: [Sebastian Deterding -Meaningful Play - Getting Gamification Right|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGCPap7GkY] |
• Collection of examples of where SAP looks into Gamification: SAP and Gamification
• Article: Game On! Can Playing Games Drive Adoption of Sales Force Automation?

Master

• How Gamification can kill the Dilbert comic

Gamification Resources

• Enterprise Gamification
• Gamification Community

Gamification Platforms

• Overview of Gamification Platforms

Articles & Blogs

• SAP & Gamification: OINK OINK! Welcome to the SAP Gamification Cup!
• Gamification: turning work into play
• Turning work into play
• Having fun  isn't always the point
• Virtual worlds, real leaders
• New interactive games make workplace e-learning fun for Canadian employees
• Fortune: Play to win: The game-based Economy

Slide deck

• Gaming the Web: Using the Structure of  Games to Design Better Web Apps

Videos

• Jane McGonigal: TED - Gaming can make a better world
• Gabe Zicherman: Gamification Patterns & Pitfalls
• Seth Priebatsch: TED - The Game Layer on the Top of the World

Webinars

• John Ferrara: Extending Game Design to Business Applications
• Byron Reeves: Work  Sucks - Games are great (Part 1) (Part 2)
• Byron Reeves: Total Engagement - Gaming the workplace
• Byron Reeves: How video games build leaders

Books

• Byron Reeves: Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way  People Work  and Businesses Compete
• Jane McGonigal: Reality is Broken - Why Games make us better and How they can change the world