The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! 😌
dangrous's review against another edition
challenging
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
1.0
I realllly wanted to like this book - I like the author, I like his work, I like the subject, and I'm generally anti capitalist - but unfortunately I felt it was truly awful. He took any opportunity to talk about how good he is at gamification compared to everyone else, he sort of arbitrarily talked about different types of gamification (or even the same type) as good or bad, without really - I thought anyway - justifying a lot of his decisions. He also consistently confused the actual gamification itself with the collection of data, and data does not equal gamification, though it's probably equally a problem. Overall I came out of it with the same knowledge I had at the beginning - hey this is bad sometimes - and never really got further than that. Sigh.
zosiablue's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Fucking phenomenal. The book I'll be telling everyone to read it. I liked it so much that I wrote the author a fan letter halfway through. I'd only surfacely considered how corporate, government, school, work, etc gamification seemed shady but this CONSIDERS it and then some. It makes me fucking furious. It's borderline revolutionary, too (or at least another text to file under Capitalism is Fucked). That's more fucks than I've ever written in a Goodreads review. Anyway. Read it!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gaslighting and Classism