Gamification, Gameful Bits

Gamification ProductivityOctober 13, 2025376Views 0Comments

Beyond the Main Story: How to Use Side Quests to Level Up Your Life

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Let’s be real. Life for a student or a professional often feels like one long, high-stakes main quest. The storyline is clear: ace that exam, crush that project, land that promotion. You pour all your energy, focus, and late-night coffee into grinding for the next…

Ready To Gamify Your Life? “10,000 Hours Of Play” Shares A Roadmap For Your Quest!

Ever feel like you’re stuck on a boring level in the game of life, just grinding through tasks with no epic boss battle in sight? You’re not alone! For many of us navigating university, the early stages of our careers, or relationships, life can feel…

Gamification ProductivityJuly 27, 2025602Views 0Comments

What’s Your Player Type? How I Personalized My Gamified Lifestyle for Maximum Productivity

You’ve tried the colour-coded planners, the ultra-minimalist to-do list apps, and maybe even the 'eat the frog' method. You’ve set resolutions, downloaded habit trackers, and promised yourself this will be the semester you finally stop procrastinating. So why do you still feel like…

Gamification ProductivityJune 29, 2025683Views 0Comments

Beyond the High Score: Why a “Balanced Build” Wins the Game of Life

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We’ve all felt it. That exhilarating rush when the “XP” bar fills up and you hear that glorious ding of a level-up. In the game of life, maybe your ding was acing a final exam, landing a huge project at work,…

Gamification ProductivityJune 21, 2025747Views 0Comments

Beyond Points and Leaderboards: The Hidden Trap of Shallow Life Gamification

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In the grand adventure of personal growth, we’ve learned to be the heroes of our own stories. At Gameful Bits, we’ve talked about transforming daunting goals into epic quests, organizing our daily tasks into engaging quest logs, and facing down our major milestones as if…

Gamification ProductivityMay 26, 20251454Views 1Comment

Boss Battles & Milestones: How to Conquer Big Goals by Breaking Them Down

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Hey adventurers! In our last escapade, "Your Daily Quest Board: Transform Your To-Do List into a Dynamic Adventure," we talked about turning those everyday tasks into exciting quests. I love how that practice can revamp our daily grind! But what about those huge …

Gamification ProductivityApril 23, 20252274Views 0Comments

Your Daily Quest Board: Transform Your To-Do List into a Dynamic Adventure

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Let's be honest, staring down a lengthy to-do list can feel less like a path to productivity and more like facing a grumpy final boss. Those endless bullet points often become a source of stress, a monument to everything you haven't done yet. Sound familiar?…

Gamification ProductivityApril 1, 2025975Views 0Comments

Level Up Your Year: Enhance Your Goals with Gamification

Juggling a million things – classes, work, social life, personal projects – often leaves New Year’s resolutions gathering dust. It’s a familiar struggle. We all have those big dreams: acing an exam, landing a dream job, mastering a new skill. But the daily grind can…

Games Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceJune 16, 20243355Views 0Comments

The Theoretical Basis of User Types: My review of the article recently published in IJHCS

A team of researchers from German, Finnish, and Canadian Universities, led by Dr. Jeanine Kirchner-Krath, recently published the interesting article Uncovering the theoretical basis of user types: An empirical analysis and critical discussion of user typologies in research on tailored gameful design. They analyzed and…

Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceFebruary 10, 202217090Views 1Comment

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…