Where’s the FUN?

Jaiaxe
Jaiaxe
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 min read

I was “ranting” at lunch, talking about possible solutions for a gamified solutions in a Company of Industry Maintenance, with the single purpose of explaining that everything can be gamified, but, not everything have to be gamified.

I started by removing the wrong definition of Gamification, that consisted, for them, in adding the word FUN in everything… So, I started to ask:

  • What’s the problem that you need to be solved?
  • What’s the objective that you want to achieve?
  • What’s the challenges that we might face?

When i started to remove the word FUN, or GAME of my speech, things got bored for them because they now understand, that Gamification is not just making a game, or adding fun to everything. It has a process behind it, a methodology that should be followed and goals to achieve.

If the answers to the problems aren’t taking in consideration, or there’s no objective to achieve, why Gamification?

Jaiaxe

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I’m a father of two, a boy and a girl, i’ve already planted more than twenty thousand trees, but it’s time to write the first book and build my first Boardgame!

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