According to the “Open Gamification Code of Ethics” (OGCE), the dimension of “Transparency” is mainly concerned about…

In an ethical framework of gamification, who would be the most important stakeholder to be considered?

In Yu-Kai’s Octalysis, which of the following Drives is explicitly considered as “Black Hat”?

As it is usual in the theoretical principles of gamification design, Yu-Kai just builds on top of previous approaches and lists of “motivational actions”. For instance,“Scarcity” is also part of Marczewski’s list, for the user type…

Under Yu-Kai’s “Avoidance” Drive category, there is one related to not being singled out as an outsider, a loser, or someone “not doing their job for the team”. For instance, being the only one not meaningfully collaborating in a guild raid in a video game.

It may happen that sometimes the user spends more time managing the game mechanics than actually advancing towards the stated purpose of the system. That could be similar to…

The sesame credit system is often touted as an example of gamification gone sour. That it has been deployed by the Chinese government certainly does no help. But that’s actually unfair, since it is “just”…

Some employees  do not see Amazon’s  gamification program as a simple method to avoid tedium, and more like a hidden metrics system. Following the OGCE, that would meanly be a breach of...

In the TikTok video about Amazon’s warehouse practices, the featured gamification element was mostly…

Robin Hood tried to make high stakes trading “fun”. This time, though, regulators clamped on them, which was fine since this case would be a blatant breach of the OGCE’s (apart from some laws)…

Initially, Robin Hood rewarded a user’s initial trade, no matter how small, with…

Sometimes, breaches of ethics are not because of maliciousness, but incompetency, or just ignoring human greed when free money is on the line. The culprit in  the case of Steam’s avalanche of “asset flips”, following the nomenclature in the “Periodic Table”, was the gamification element…

Value Sensitive Design (VSD) proposes a framework, based in 5 dimensions that must be evaluated, to evaluate whether a design process (any) aligns with human values. One of them basically asks, “What could happen if everybody from my generation adopts this system?”.

QUALITY ROUND: At the start of “Ocarina of Time”, Link is also known as “The Boy without a …”