What is Gamification?
The simplest definition of gamification is a process for integrating game mechanics into something that already exists to motivate participation, engagement, and loyalty. This can be almost anything, from your website to social media presence, day-to-day operations, customer engagement and more.
Gamification introduces game design elements into non-game applications to make them more fun and engaging. It uses competition, points, achievement, rules of play, status and self-expression to encourage actions through positive feedback.
How it can help Community Apps?
Gamification can help Community Apps to increase engagement, participation, motivation & loyalty of a user using the community Apps. A user using can be able to express more rational feelings by doing fun activities on community App. It can give a user a sense of contribution to a large picture. Community Apps can be able to gather more data & can be able to analyze & report important issues/pain points to the users/actors after a successful integration of Gamification.
Gamification in Community Apps?
Gamification in the community Apps can be divided into 3 small phases. So as to understand how the system & user are reacting & evolving with the changes.
Phase 1 - GodFather I
Phase 2 - GodFather II
Phase 3 - GodFather III
What is Game Mechanics/Space?
The components of a game are called game mechanics. And as it applies to gamification, the right set of game mechanics are used to engage or motivate the user. We can be using 10 components to build gamification.
Identity
Story
Mystery
Chances
Competitions
Community
Collaboration
Contribution
Levels
Badges
Points
Gamification Model (Developed by @ImAshutoshPS)
Activities which can earn Points/Score to the user?
Types of Levels & its criteria?
Types of Badges & it’s criterias?
Data Points which can be shown on the Leaderboard?
How the user can assess his/her contributions & collaborations?
The user can have a dedicated page, where he can see his Points/Scores, Badges & Level. The logs of activities can also be shown to the user on a different page.