Video Games Research

A few weeks ago I gave a lecture about Gamifaction in TechLoft, you can find the presentation here. I think there were about 50 people in the crowd, after the presentation I stayed for 2 hours answering questions and got about 30 email about it with question, requests for meetings etc’. I don’t think it was better then previous lectures I gave, I just think that in the past few months Gamification has became super impotent for the Isreali start-up community. Everybody is talking about, and everybody wants to learn more,

In addition the amount of Gamification consulting jobs we did at playfulshark  in the past few months increased dramatically and the demand for lectures about Gamification increased as well, all indication the same thing.

As so, Next week I was invited to lecture in two more events, and as I understand both events  are free of charge and open for the public. If you want to learn about Gamifiaction, you are more then welcome to join me in one of these events:

1. Sunday April 29th, 19:05 at TechLoft (again) which is at 14 Nachmani St., Tel Aviv. The lecture will be part of  a Habrahabr Israel Event , a Hi-tech Event for the Russian speaking geeks in Israel.  The lecture will be in Hebrew as i don’t know Russian .
2. Tuesday May 1st, 19:00 at IDCs acceleration program for start-ups that is called  The Elevator, which is at 35 Ahad Haam in Tel Aviv, it will probably be more intimate as the event is not published and is mainly for the  stat-ups in the program.

Happy 64 for our Gamified Start-up nation

A few days ago i gave a lecture about Gamification and Usability in the World Usability Day Conference in Israel. It was very fun meeting some old friends and sharing with the Israeli Usability community my thoughts. My presentation can be found here.

To who ever played the game with me, these are the games you can find in the presentation:

1. Portal 2
2. Wii fit
3. Civilization 3
4. World of Warcraft
5. Pong
6. Ms-Pacman
7. Street fighter 2
8. Helo
9. Uncharted 3
10. Dinar dash
11. Flight control
12. farmville
13. Super Mario bros
14. Out run
15. Space invaders
16. Bejeweled blitz
17. Angry birds
18. lemmings
19. Slotomania
20. Star craft 2

Recently, a few people are asked to for interesting links about  Gamification. instead of just sending everybody the same mail, i decided to list then all here, for all future inquires and for any body who is interested in the Gamification:

The first place to gois the Gamification Wiki were you can probably find most of the other links in this post. Jesse Schell lecture at Dice 2010, in my opinion the lecture that started the current trend. Jane Mcgonigal lectures at TED. Gabe Zichermann blog and one of his lectures (most of them are the same, but seeing one is a must).  and if you want to hear about Gamification in Hebrew check my lecture about Gamification in Teaching.

last but not least, a very interesting research about the subject. In this presentation you can find the names of most the compnies who are developing Gamification products like: Bunchball and Badgeville, and see a forecast for the market. very interesting.