This is the presentation I used at the first Thessaloniki Gamification Meetup to present gamification on a variety of professionals.

1. Let’s Talk About Gamification
What is gamification and how it can help us
Vasilis Gkogkidis – January 2017

2. How did I get here?

3. What we do
• Consulting
• Speaking
• Training

4. Definition
Gamification “The use of game elements and game-design techniques in non-
game contexts.” Werbach and Hunter (2012, p26)
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5. “In every job that must be done.
There is an element of fun.
You find the fun and snap, the job’s a game.”
-Mary Poppins

6. Piano Stairs

7. How do games work?

8. “Games give us unnecessary obstacles that we
volunteer to tackle” Bernard Suits

9. Most Expensive Movie Ever Made Most Expensive Game Ever Made
Cost: $ 400 million Cost: $ 500 million

11. Dopamine
Dopamine is released before an event that requires some sort of response,
pleasurable or otherwise, and drives us to act.

12. Serotonin
Serotonin is a mood regulator. If you have enough you will be happy, if you don’t –
you will be miserable.

13. Oxytocin
Oxytocin is key to how we bond to others.
This can even occur remotely via social networks such asTwitter!

14. How Can Gamification Help Us ?

15. Exercise – Zombie Run

16. Saying Well Done - Bonusly

17. Fighting Diseases - Foldit

18. Fight Hunger – Free Rice

19. Marketing – James Bond Skyfall

20. Recruiting – Quest For Oil

21. Getting People To Notice You

22. Thank You!
Greek Gamification Network
vasilis.gkogkidis@gamificationplus.uk
@v_gkogkidis