William Kriski is a software integration specialist and a guitar teacher. Combining the two, he’s made Online Guitar Coaching. He has over 29 years of guitar playing and teaching experience, his YouTube videos have over 1,300,000 views...

I was at the Gamification conference yesterday hosted by Playgen as part of the Digital Shoreditch week. I tweeted a lot during talks from Rick Gibson, Raf Keustermans, Sebastian Deterding and Richard Bartle. So much so that...

Gamification may have been the buzzword of 2010, but its influence shows no sign of abating in 2011. It is a term derided by game designers, misunderstood by brands and unknown to consumers. So as you set...

Michael French alerted me to this wonderful slide deck from Sebastian Deterding. I feared it was going to be a GamaSutra-reader style rant against casualisation, socialisation or the ending of the hegemony of self-appointed “hardcore gamers”. In...

This week’s guest post is from Roy Schmidt at Bigdoor, the company that allows anyone to gamify their website. He reckons that before you leap into gamification, you should read these five tips. And I agree. There’s...

This is a presentation given at DICE by Jesse Schell that I was alerted to by Shanti Bergel. It’s a full 30 mins, but the first 20 minutes focus on how few game designers really saw the...