Goals, Rules, & Objectives
Requires understanding game elements.
What is effective gamification?
A challenge provided by a meaningful opponent.
What is conflict?
Feedback that guides the learner toward the correct instructional outcome.
What is corrective feedback?
Tutorial mode, easy mode, medium mode, and expert mode.
What are levels?
The amount of interest players have during a game.
What is engagement?
Rules that describe how the gamification experience works.
What are operational rules?
Given to learner for completing a task to a certain degree.
What is measurement achievement?
Corrective feedback that also includes relevant information about why an answer is incorrect.
What is explanatory feedback?
Help a player identify how far they have progressed through a gamification experience.
What are points?
Motivation comes from personal interest.
What is intrinsic motivation?
What you want the learner to know, or be able to do, as a result of their gamification experience.
What is the learning objective?
Awarded to a learner for simply completing a task.
What is completion achievement?
Feedback that attempts to diagnose why the incorrect response was chosen.
What is diagnostic feedback?
A list of top scores in the game, viewable by all players.
What is a leaderboard?
Motivation comes from rewards, prizes, or points.
What is extrinsic motivation?
This gives players freedom and autonomy to use different approaches and methods.
What is a goal?
The act of working with others to achieve a positive outcome.
What is cooperation?
When the learner receives the same type of feedback he or she would receive in the real world.
What is natural feedback?
Typically awarded the nonlinear accomplishments within a game.
What are badges?
Brings out emotions during the game.
What is emotional engagement?
Should be: well structured, sequenced with meaning, motivational, and incremental toward terminal goal.
What should goals be?
When opponents are constrained from impeding each other and instead devote effort to optimizing their own performance.
What is competition?
Feedback designed to indicate the degree of "rightness" or "wrongness" of a response, action, or activity.
What is conformational feedback?
Don't make failure permanent, provide multiple paths to success, and let learners know they have multiple choices.
How do you implement replayability?
Using characters, plots, tension, and resolution.
What are story elements?