🚀 Want your community buzzing and bringing in more revenue? Snag my free mini course with 3 killer gamification hacks: professorgame.com/freebie-3-gamification-hacks Episode Summary Dain Saint, founder of Reckless Magic and curator of Futurefull, recounts how Cypher Prime spent months trying to build Tailwind (a […]
Episode Summary Yu-kai Chou returns to introduce 10,000 Hours of Play, his second book, co-authored with former Octalysis Prime student Mark Diaz. He lays out a six-step framework (choose your game, identify your attributes, choose your role, enhance your skills, build alliances, achieve quests) […]
Episode Summary Rob Alvarez breaks down Skool as an all-in-one platform for building paid online communities, walking through its core features (community feed, classroom courses, calendar, members map, and built-in leaderboard with levels) using Ted Carr’s community as a live example. He argues Skool’s […]
Episode Summary Game theorist Jesper Juul returns to discuss Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer, arguing that the standard Atari-crash-then-Nintendo narrative of gaming history erases the European home computer culture that actually dominated the 1980s. He traces the C64 […]
Episode Summary Amy Jo Kim returns to describe how she, Piyush Mahajan, and Scott Kim built JourneyMaker, a GenAI tool trained on decades of her client data that generates ICP screeners, job stories, synthetic personas, and end-to-end player-journey storyboards covering discovery, onboarding, habit-building, and […]
Episode Summary Rob Alvarez argues that most online communities lose members not from weak content but from three structural failures: a generic first-five-minutes that feels like walking into a party where nobody greets you, the ‘spread the butter thin’ trap of producing more posts […]
🚀 Want your community buzzing and bringing in more revenue? Snag my free mini course with 3 killer gamification hacks: professorgame.com/freebie-3-gamification-hacks Episode Summary Dr. Joe Lasley, founder of Gamenamic Leadership and Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Maine, describes piloting LeadRPG (a method […]
🔥 Losing users? Get free, expert-backed resources to boost retention with gamification: professorgame.com/freecommunity-web Episode Summary Swedish upper secondary teacher Anders Kjellberg describes co-creating The Great Gambit with developer Zhenya Luchaninau. A role-playing simulation covering 1871–1914 designed to help students understand the forces that escalated […]
🔥 Losing users? Get free, expert-backed resources to boost retention with gamification: professorgame.com/freecommunity-web How do you gamify learning without losing the learning?We talk with Bram about designing Minecraft-powered learning experiences that actually work. From working with NASA to teaching democracy through play, he reveals […]
🔥 Losing users? Get free, expert-backed resources to boost retention with gamification: professorgame.com/freecommunity-web What if learning felt like playing — and retention was built into the design?In this episode, Rob interviews Aldi Agaj, CEO of Alter Learning, who shares how his team builds educational […]
