The intersection of artificial intelligence and gamified experience design.
These engagement failures, and how to fix them, map directly onto the Octalysis Core Drives. Get the free Core Drives in the Wild guide: professorgame.com/WildCD Episode Summary Rob breaks down why Amazon shut down KiroRank, the internal leaderboard that scored staff on raw […]
Get the free Core Drives in the Wild guide, behavioral design applied to real corporate cases: professorgame.com/WildCD Episode Summary Rob breaks down why enterprise AI adoption stalls even with paid licenses and training, while a group of students beat a locked, proctored exam with […]
Have a product challenge around retention? Quick intro chat → professorgame.com/chat Episode Summary Leif Sørensen, founder of Actee, argues that most learning games fail because clients treat them as “magic powder” that can absorb a dozen frameworks at once, and because designers say yes […]
If you’re implementing AI and want to realize that promised ROI, let’s see if Octalysis fits → professorgame.com/chat Episode Summary Rob Alvarez argues that AI implementation in 2026 is a behavioral problem and not a technical one, and that most AI rollouts fail because […]
Episode Summary Matt Metzgar, a clinical professor of economics at UNC Charlotte and author of The Overnight AI Educator, argues that faculty are overestimating the work required to redesign courses for the AI era and that piecemeal AI additions produce a Frankenstein result. He […]
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 […]
If you’re struggling to keep people engaged and loyal in your product or business, check out my FREE gamification course to learn how to do just that: professorgame.com/freecommunity-web Discover the intersection of AI and gamification in education to enhance creativity and efficiency. We’re joined […]
Listen to this episode on your phone! Dr. Mfon Akpan is an assistant professor of accounting at Methodist University. He has a passion for emerging technologies and is an expert in virtual reality technology. He researches new technologies and educational methods to offer students a […]