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Gameful Bits is operated by Gustavo Tondello, Ph.D., gamification specialist, researcher, and consultant. If you’re interested in applying gamification to your product, I can help you design personalized gameful solutions to create more engaging applications and experiences. If you’re a gamification or UX professional, I can help you create personalized solutions using the gameful design methods that I have developed.

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Groups of Gameful Design Elements
Classifying User Preferences for Groups of Gameful Design Elements
I have previously described my research that results in the creation of the Groups of Gameful Design Elements. If you're not familiar with it yet, I highly recommend reading the three-post series starting with the one linked in the previous sentence. In my work, I…
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Meet Metablox, a gameful blockchain app powered by real-life memories
Currently, there are many new applications being developed in the "Web 3.0", which means that they store data in a decentralized way using blockchain technologies. One trend is that of "play-to-earn" games. It is an interesting idea. Because the game objects are on the blockchain…
What is Gamification—and other definitions
Although I have been writing on this blog for several years now, I had not yet attempted to provide a definition of gamification because we already had plenty of definitions out there. But our community was recently challenged by Andrzej Marczewski to re-discuss the existing…