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Every episode of the Professor Game podcast, hosted by Rob Alvarez of The Octalysis Group. Honest breakdowns of gamification, behavioral design, and the Octalysis Framework, applied to real products, retention, and engagement. New episodes weekly, plus interviews with leading experts.
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I Tried VR Fire Training (and Failed to Find the Phone) with Ludus | Episode 409
ο»Ώ Health and Safety π₯ training is a drag and ineffective or expensive and dangerous β οΈ… Or is it? Check out what’s possible with our sponsor Ludus and their Free Guide: professorgame.com/free-ludus-guide Episode Summary Testing five of Ludus’s standalone VR/AR health and safety simulations […]
I Paid 5 Growth Experts To Create A Growth Playbook For The Same Community | Episode 408
Donβt guess your next title β get the proven ones for free: π professorgame.com/YT-Title-Spreadsheet Episode Summary Rob Alvarez reports back from hiring five growth experts to build playbooks for the same community and distills their advice into three pre-onboarding levers for YouTube content: titles, […]
Civic Engagement Through Classroom Games with Kerry Flanagan-Owen | Episode 407
Book a free 1:1 call to create your personalized gamification game plan: π― professorgame.com/discoverycall Episode Summary Kerry Flanagan-Owen, Senior Manager of Learning Design at the Bill of Rights Institute, describes how her team (collaborating with Game Genius designers Roddy McKenzie and Peter Williamson) built […]
How to Win at the Game of Life (Without Playing by the Rules) | Episode 406
Episode Summary Drawing on Peter Gray’s “A Brief History of Education,” Rob Alvarez argues that modern schooling was engineered for compliance and obedience to serve agricultural and industrial labor needs, not to develop free thinkers. He maps the resulting dynamic onto game design (extrinsic […]
From Skeptics to Superstars: The Power of Play at Work with Alex Suchman | Episode 405
π 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 Alex Suchman, CEO of Barometer XP, argues that play at work has been miscast as frivolous when it is actually the […]