Engagement loops are the best way to motivate people using game mechanics (Alper)

It has been a pleas­ure to see our asso­ci­ate Sebastian Deterding’s think­ing evolve through his present­a­tions over the years. It has been a treat to read every new deck and to fol­low his reas­on­ing in detail. You can also trace a very dis­tinct line about games, user exper­i­ence, psy­cho­logy and eth­ics that has become more pro­nounced over time. Recently Sebastian pub­lished “Magic Wonder Pixie Dust”, a present­a­tion which serves as our main ref­er­ence when design­ing for motiv­a­tion. This one comes in at 204 slides and it touches on everything you need to know to do this. I’ll go through it tak­ing the engage­ment loop slide as a guide (below and 101 in the present­a­tion) and talk about how we apply it as a design method in our day-to-day con­sult­ing work. (whatsthehubbub.nl)