Gamification: How to Level Up Your Life and Business (Udemy.com)
Comprehensive gamification course covering everything from principles to mechanics and the psychology behind game design
Created by: Doru Catana
Last updated January 2019
What you will learn
- Easily add game mechanics to your life and business
- Increase productivity with game elements
- Boost customer loyalty with psychological triggers
- Achieve objectives faster and have fun at the same time
How it compares
Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 20% of them
- Reviews95#891 of 1,108 by number of reviews
- Length1.5 hoursshorter than 71% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2019earlier than 89% of them
Course Description
Feeling bored, unproductive or stuck in a rut? Working 10 hours a day but aren’t really “feeling it”.
You remember when things were fun and engaging but now you are hating every minute and feel you are missing out and should do something different?
It doesn’t always mean you need to change what you are doing but rather HOW you are doing it.
Even Picasso, Da Vinci and Eistein got bored of their work.
THIS IS WHERE GAMIFICATION COMES INTO PLAY.
It taps into our core psychological triggers and helps us make progress and achieve our goals.
Gamification is the reason why you can play 16 hours straight and still look forward to doing it again tomorrow. That’s why you keep telling yourself: ANOTHER ONE. One more quest, one more hour, one more....
It’s the reason kids get hooked so fast. It's the reason Fortnite reached 200 million players.
All those game mechanics from badges to leaderboards to quests have the role to keep you playing...for hours and hours....
So why not use those exact elements to achieve your own personal or professional goals?
Look, I have over 5,000 hours of playing Dota 2 (I can send you my Steam Profile URL if you don’t believe me), not even going into detail with all the other games I’ve played along the years.
So you could say I’ve been a victim just as much as I’ve been a student of game design and game mechanics.
I’ve experienced first hand all the psychological triggers I’m going to share in the course that’s why I can attest what worked for me and for the 10,000,000 unique monthly players Dota 2 has.
On top of that in my freelance work I’ve consulted with several Fortune 500 organizations to integrate gamification into their workflow with great results.
So, who would you rather listen to?
Someone who tells you the theory or someone who experienced 20,000+ hours of game mechanics and applied them to the world of business with success?
But getting back on track....
At the end of the day it’s not even about games. It’s psychology. It’s what makes you pull the trigger.
And this course goes over everything from how choice works, to cognitive biases and even advanced topics like the Skinner box which for you who don’t know what that's about, it loosely says something like this:
If you get a reward for your action just sometimes you are more likely to repeat that action than if you got the reward every time.
It's why loot boxes exist in games with great financial rewards for game developers.
Moving from psychology to practicality the course explains in detail all the core game mechanics of gamification. Things like badges, leaderboards, quests, goal setting and much more…
So by the end of the course you will not only know about game mechanics, you will have the ability to take action and get the results you are chasing easier with game mechanics.
And that’s the key word here…EASIER.
Because at the end of the day you already know what you want deep down inside.
All that you’re lacking is that extra drive, that push, that extra motivation to push you FROM PONDERING TO DOING.
And that’s my promise with this course, to help you find the right gamification elements you can apply to your life or business and MOVE FORWARD AND WIN.
And I’ve also made it simple for you:
This course is NOT:
10 hours filled with boring presentations
stuck up approach where I give a one size fits all method
theory with no practical application
This course is just the exact mix of theory, examples and to-dos to get you to take action and reach your goals.
So either you want to:
get that promotion
improve your productivity
allocate more time to that hobby
make work fun again
not be bored out of your mind at work
grow your business while having fun
have customers be more loyal
boost repeat purchases
make progress on that impossible project
make the relationship with your loved ones more fun
live a more fulfilling and purposeful life
This course WILL HELP YOU DO THAT.
I’m looking forward to hearing you share your results from adding gamification to your life.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
95 Reviews
Doru Catana
I’ve always been passionate about growing businesses.
Started out working in a marketing agency, then went to freelancing, grew that into my own agency with a team of 6 managing hundreds of campaigns both big and small, then decided I can’t reach enough people that way.
So I decided to teach, but not just information void of practical application. But things you learn and then put to use the same day and get results.
Few years later the courses I created helped thousands of businesses and professionals all over the world, with Udemy alone having over 20,000 satisfied students.
My mission remains the same as it was when I started out, to impact in a positive way as many businesses and people passionate about results as I can.
And you can TEST my commitment to that mission quite easily!
Simply reach out to me.
There is no question asked or comment unanswered by me personally within 24 hours of it being sent. Even if you are not a student I still try to help out as much as I can.
Watch my courses chronologically.
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Reviews
By Shelley Lewis on 1/13/2024
This course was a great overview for me as I start out with creating training with gamification. Lots more to learn on this topic.
By Damaris R Speed on 3/16/2023
This course is straightforward to understand and follow. I am happy with it so far!
By Esteban Morales Alarcon on 1/9/2021
Setting itself for the times and setting clear expectations, this course guided me towards what I was looking for: Acquiring an organized introduction to gamification which has now set a strong basis upon which I can continue searching. I liked how straightforward it is with its content and the fact that it doesn't try to sell you gamification, but rather explains how you can simply apply it to various environments by understanding some concepts. I just hope it had more content, I think the basics are covered in the right amount of time, but it runs a bit short in the end. There goes a missed opportunity to apply in more detail what is taught. Great course.
By Dnyanesh Gore on 9/30/2020
Amazing insights, a good course to understand the fundamentals of Gamification.
By Bruna Marzarotto on 9/22/2019
Um curso muito bom sobre gamification. O destaque sobre os aspectos psicológicos do jogo fez toda a diferença. Acredito que poderia ter mais exemplos práticos de como aplicar na vida. Ainda assim, recomendo para quem quer começar a aprender sobre o tema.
By David Oria on 6/4/2019
Very good course. Easy to follow. Made of short videos at the right speed, with the right level of fun. Thank you
By Peter Karlen on 5/30/2019
A good introductory course. It was kept interesting through cute animations and good examples. The only thing that could have made it even better would be more material on practical implementation, but that would have made the course much longer.
By John Killeen on 5/18/2019
Liked it: short, quick, direct. Great examples Easy to go back and re-do
By Pablo Kalhofer on 3/28/2019
Esta bien, me hubiera gustado mas profundidad en los temas, pero quedo conforme con lo que se presento
By Claudiu GURA on 1/27/2019
I learned interesting information of how to improve my activities at work by using gamification!
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