The document discusses game thinking as a methodology for enhancing team and organizational efficiency through game design techniques, focusing on the complexity of player motivation. It highlights intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, player types, and the importance of empathy in creating engaging experiences. Key concepts include the significance of the 'magic circle' in gameplay and the interplay of competition, bluffing, and collaboration among players.

1. Game thinking for
human-focused transformations
Valerio Provaggi

2. Ergonomic
Organization
“designed for
efficiency and comfort”

3. Game Thinking
Using game design
techniques to
improve teams and
organizations

4. The Player

5. Motivation is more
complex than
good and bad.
Motivation
Intrinsic MotivationExtrinsic Motivation

6. Motivation is more
complex than
good and bad.
It is a continuum.
Motivation
IntrinsicExtrinsic
Integrated
Empathy +
Choice
Mechanics
Identified
Meaning
Making
Mechanics
Introjected
Pressure
Mechanics
External
Control
Mechanics

7. Don’t
underestimate the
dark side of
motivation
Motivation

8. Bartle Taxonomy
of Player types
Player
Attitudes
Killers Achievers
Socializer Explorer
Acting
Interacting
WorldPlayers
Compete
Taunt
Compare
Steal
kill
Personalize
Accumulate
Set Goals
Count
BrowseConnect Try
ExploreSupport
Ally

9. The PlayerThe Experience

10. That special
significance that
transforms kicking
a ball in a net into
scoring a goal
The Magic
Circle
Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay

11. Flow
A challenge activity
that requires skills
Clear goals
Direct Feedback
Concentration on
the task at hand

12. The feeling of
being right there,
right now, without
perception of the
technology
Presence
Player
World
OutwardInward

13. The ExperienceThe Game

14. Chip
Taking
3 or more factions
that can target
each other to steal
chips.
Backstabbing
Choose target
Private
Asymmetric Goals
Bluffing
Negotiating
Allying
Steal
Depend on each
other for success
Connected players

15. Chip
Taking
3 or more factions
that can target
each other to steal
chips.
ReturntoSkill Politics

16. The GameThe Game Designer

17. Experience
is king
Experience is about
empathy: feeling,
thinking, earing,
seeing.

18. Summary

19. References
Games without Frontiers : Aki Järvinen
Designing for engagement and sustained statisfaction : Rigsby
Self-Determination Theory and the facilitation of Intrinsic
Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being : Ryan, Deci
Gamasutra
Underneath and beyond mechanics: An activity-theoretical
perspective on meaning-making in gameplay : Fabricatore
Characteristics of Games: Garfield, Elias, Gutschera
Game Thinking: Amy Jo Kim

20. Game thinking power up
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