For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business

Abstract

Millions flock to their computers, consoles, mobile phones, tablets, and social networks each day to play World of Warcraft, Farmville, Scrabble, and countless other games, generating billions in sales each year. The careful and skillful construction of these games is built on decades of research into human motivation and psychology: A well-designed game goes right to the motivational heart of the human psyche. In For the Win, authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter argue persuasively that gamemakers need not be the only ones benefiting from game design. Werbach and Hunter are lawyers and World of Warcraft players who created the world’s first course on gamification at the Wharton School of the University of…

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Keywords
  • Game mechanics
  • Game Developer
  • Psyche
  • Game design
  • Video game design
  • Customer engagement
  • Marketing
  • Psychology
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