Professor Game Podcast

With a background in neuroscience, computer science, and psychology, Amy Jo Kim is part game designer, part web community architect. Her design credits include Rock Band, The Sims, Ultima Online, eBay, family.com, nytimes.com, indiegogo.com. and numerous startups. She's well known for her 2000 book, Community Building on the Web, and her work applying game design to Web and mobile services. Kim ho...

David Mullich has been designing entertainment and educational products for such companies as Activision, Age of Learning, Disney, Edu-Ware Services, Encyclopedia Britannica, Mattel, and the Spin Master toy company for over three decades. In recent years, he has focused on applying game design techniques to academia and business. David has served as an industry mentor at the USC GamePipe Lab, co-c...

Karl is the assistant director and a faculty member at Bloomsburg University's Institute for Interactive Technologies (IIT), where he teaches courses like Managing Multimedia Projects, Applying Theories of Learning for Interactive Technologies, E-Learning Concepts and Techniques and Learning in 3D. He believes teaching/education/learning is an interactive exchange between students and the instruct...

Dr. Zac Fitz-Walter is a gamification designer who uses game design techniques and principles to help make tasks more engaging and motivating. He·s applied gamification to many different areas including training, education, health, wellbeing, business and HR. Zac leveled up his education in 2015 with a Ph. D. in designing effective gamification for mobile applications. He has taught a range of uni...

Dr. Michael Wu has served as the Chief Scientist at Lithium over the past decade, where he focuses on developing predictive and prescriptive algorithms to extract insights from social big data. His research spans many areas, including customer experience, CRM, online influence, gamification, digital transformation, AI, etc. His R&D won him the recognition as an Influential Leader by CRM Magazine a...

After changing his student life for a working career, Horst Streck worked as an information expert within the Amsterdam local authorities for over 15 years. In 2001 Horst Streck founded I Sioux Media Productions with two partners. In 2002 the company made its first step as a game developer. In 2007 the company entered the casual games arena, with the brand Youdagames. Youdagames won the Dutch Game...

Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner, is a leading expert in the fields of brand narrative, story world development, creative franchise design, and transmedia storytelling. He specializes in the expansion of entertainment properties, premium brands, and socio-political themes into highly successful multi-platform communications and international campaigns. As a producer accredited by the Producers...

Juliette is the Ideologist in Chief (AKA Managing Director) at Growth Engineering, and her unwavering mission is to wage war on dull online learning! She is a pioneer and expert in applying gamification and social functionality to online learning. She has an unrivaled passion for learner engagement, which leaves audiences inspired and electrified. She is the complete package: influencer, expert an...

After graduating from Mathematical Engineering Altug worked for Netron and BilgeAdam as a trainer. He was responsible for Turkcell Educational platforms more than 5 years at Turkcell Academy. He is the author of first Turkish gamification book: and Gamification Confederation GamFED's Turkey representer. He blogs about gamification and is the only Turkish person who got invited and gave a speech at...

Manuel is a Lead Gamification Designer at Fractal Mind, and his background is mostly in software development and analysis. For the past 6 years, he's been one of the main voices of gamification in Portugal and has had the luck of spreading the fun in domains like eLearning, employee engagement, sales teams and ideation since then, with some of the top banking and retail companies in Portugal. Manu...

Drawing on experience in education, e-learning, theatre, retail, training, startups, events & game industries, he has found that this one thing thrilled him the most: designing purposeful fun.· When we play, we are pushing to be the best version of ourselves. Working should be more like playing. His power lies in doing just that: using all the powerful elements found in games and use them in organ...

Ahmed Hossam is The International Gamification Confederation (Gamfed) Ambassador in Egypt. He is a keynote speaker, consultant, designer and facilitator on gamification. He is currently the president of Gamification Egypt and the founder of Gampact. Ahmed is one of the of the top pioneers in gamification in the Middle-East, he has been in the ·Global Gamification Gurus Power 100· since 2015 and in...

Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos is the founder of the Strategic Innovation Lab, where they create solutions for innovation using gamification, systems thinking and their own frameworks to deliver results for their clients.

Scott is a 7th and 8th grade teacher and is one of the pioneers in implementing a fully gamified classroom. Just going into the room lets you know you are in a different place, it is themed as a medieval adventure!

Vasilis Gkogkidis was an organizer of Gamification Europe 2017 and is also a gamification designer at Gamification +. He started his gamification journey with Pete Jenkins coming right out of his Masters degree.

Sabrina Bruehwiler is a gamification designer and consultant at the Octalysis Group. She has a lot of experience with user experience (UX) and holds creativity as her superpower. Listen to this episode and get amazing insights she has gathered along her journey.

In this episode we talk with Bernardo Letayf, a gamification expert who created Blue Rabbit, a software to create gamified environments for education. For his work, he was recently awarded the gamification software of the year at Gamification Europe.

This is a special episode where instead of having a guest I will go over my own experience at the conference Gamification Europe. In the show notes at professorgame.com/podcast/010 you will also find pictures and links to the videos of the talks.

Erik is a writer and works bot hon his own books and with The Octalysis Group. He uses gamification in his daily life and has awesome stories to tell us!

In this episode we have learning gamification guru Monica Cornetti give us deep examples of how gamification has failed either because she didn't know the audience or an app that just got it wrong, but also how she's achieved amazing things using gamification.

Listen to Tony Chan talk about game development to get the best ideas for the gamification of your learning experience. Tony's podcast GameDev Loadout talks about the challenges of game developers.

Professor Jared Chapman is the founder of Project Delphinium where he explores the do's and dont's of gamification in an educational setting.

Sylvester Arnab is involved in multiple gamification projects in Coventry University and in Europe, he is even a reader of game science! Listen to this episode to learn from his experience and how he would gamify high school.

Listen to An Coppens, one of the top gamification gurus of the world, talk about how she has changed her life using gamification (literally). Learn from her huge success, but also from her hard times how good gamification can make your life fun!

Pete Jenkins is the organizer of Gamification Europe, a new conference around the gamification space that will happen the 28-29 of November 2017.