Great Gamification Video by Sebastian Deterding

Recently, I have been having a great conversation with Kathy Sierra and Sebastian Deterding about Gamification…what it means, what it doesn’t mean and the implications, it was been a wonderful discussion.

You can follow the thread, and add your own comments at In Defense of the Term “Gamification” as used by Learning Professionals

All three of us basically argued, in our own way, for a focus on elements of games that make real impact, the elements of story, challenge, and relevance above the simple, but often mis-guided attempt, at just adding rewards, points or badges to create a game layer just to try to “force” engagement.

It was a great discussion and I thought I would post one of Sebastian’s talks on the subject as he makes some excellent points. I shared this video with my Instructional Game Design class and several of the design teams took to heat what Sebastian said and implemented the ideas into their instructional games.