Here are the reasons why gaming is so captivating: We receive instant feedback. We experience a sense of flow Progressive difficulty makes us want more. Gaming is intrinsically gratifying.

1. What makes gaming so appealing?
Gamification

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
SCMS School of Technology and Management
Kerala, India.
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Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
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3. What makes gaming so appealing?
• Here are the reasons why
gaming is so captivating:
–We receive instant
feedback.
–We experience a sense of
flow
–Progressive difficulty
makes us want more.
–Gaming is intrinsically
gratifying.

4. Instant feedback
• Gaming creates a world
that allows us instant
results based on our
performance.

5. • “When we pick up our smartphones and settle in
with a good game, we immerse ourselves in a world
that offers instant feedback on our performance and
a sense of accomplishment when we succeed. A
world where every task offers an opportunity to grow
our competence, enhance our skills, and earn
recognition.” - Ron Friedman

6. Instant feedback
• We know almost
immediately how well we
did on a particular task,
fueling our need for
feedback and recognition.

7. Experience a sense of flow
• Time passes quickly when
gaming. How many times
have you been so immersed
in completing a task within a
game that you lose track of
time?

8. Experience a sense of flow
• Psychologists refer to this as flow, a
state in which we are completely
absorbed in an activity and
unaware of all other stimuli. Your
ability to concentrate on the task at
hand becomes effortless.

9. Progressive difficulty
• All games have levels that inspire
you to continue to work toward
the goal. Gaming is less about
the given task, because, let’s face
it, flinging birds across a screen is
not all that engaging.

10. Progressive difficulty
• But gaming creates a progressively
more difficult environment in which
our need to achieve kicks into
overdrive. We’re continuously
pushed toward higher levels of
performance that reinforce that
state of flow.

11. Progressive difficulty
• Research suggests that we are
most engaged when our skills
are stretched and when we
are building expertise.
Gaming does that.

12. Intrinsically gratifying
• Advancements in
neuroscience reveal that
when we learn and acquire
new information, our
production of dopamine rises.

13. Intrinsically gratifying
• This explains why gaming is
so enthralling. The release of
dopamine actually makes
everything more interesting.
Our moods usually improve,
too.

14. What makes gaming so appealing?
• These attributes—receiving
feedback instantly, experiencing
flow, progressive difficulty, and
intrinsic gratification—are
powerful mechanisms to
promote adult learning.

15. What makes gaming so appealing?
• This intersection of
psychology and gaming helps
us understand the allure of
using gamification to
complete repetitive tasks.

16. What makes gaming so appealing?
• This intersection of
psychology and gaming helps
us understand the allure of
using gamification to
complete repetitive tasks.