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Stories about gamification

3 stories from the journal share this topic, on the Success stories, Social play, and Player habits shelves.

Start with “Does gamification work? What the meta-analyses actually say”. Points, badges and leaderboards were meant to make everything engaging. Here is what reviews of hundreds of studies found, and where the evidence runs thin.

Stories tagged gamification

  1. Does gamification work? What the meta-analyses actually say

    Points, badges and leaderboards were meant to make everything engaging. Here is what reviews of hundreds of studies found, and where the evidence runs thin.

    OutBrick Editorial Desk · 6 min read

  2. Do leaderboards motivate or discourage? What studies show

    Leaderboards can lift effort like a hard goal, or quietly drain motivation from people near the bottom. What experiments show, and how to use one well.

    OutBrick Editorial Desk · 7 min read

  3. Rewards, streaks and motivation: when incentives backfire

    Why rewards can crowd out the fun they were meant to boost, why a broken streak makes people quit, and how to keep incentives on your side.

    Mourad Hamdi · 6 min read

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