Game Design - What Is the Key to Flow?

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One of the reasons I think games are so engaging in comparison to real life is they naturally create an environment that is more apt to getting us into like a super flow state. And when you're in this state of flow, you lose a sense of time, you losing a sense of self, you become quite happy. You also become pretty unhappy when you get interrupted and out of flow. We get grumpy because we're just taking out a flow. So, this flow state is a good place to be. Of course, time goes by fast. It's not that great gamers are grumpy. It's that anyone in flow, whether you're designing something, you're really into your

Yu-kai Chou is an Author and International Keynote Speaker on Gamification and Behavioral Design. He is the Founding Partner and Chief Creation Officer of the premium consulting/design firm The Octalysis Group, as well as the Original Creator of the Octalysis Framework, and the author of Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards.

We talked about why games are often more engaging than real life, The Octalysis Framework-Yu-Kai’s most substantial life work that breaks down all human motivation into eight core drives, why traditional schooling so boring, how to gamify your real life, flow theory as it relates to the Octaylsis, and Octalysis Prime-Yu-Kai’s online gamified learning platform.

Yu-Kai Chou Blog: https://yukaichou.com/

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