Special: Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra)
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The Difference Between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Children with no reward spent seventeen per cent of their time drawing. But the children who expected a reward, so to speak, they only spent eight per cent oftheir time drawing. In other words, the extrinsic reward had literally arved their motivation. And that's why gamification does not work. When gamefication does work, it is because the underlying experience was already a game. To go back to roonscape, when getting that next piece of lute in diablo fashion, or levelling up in world of warcraft fashion, feels good.
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