Gamesy

Abstract

Games have existed since time immemorial and have proved to significantly change people's mentality and attitudes towards countless scenarios. Although games are ‘time wasters', we should acknowledge the one thing that games offer, constant testing, and learning a simple game engages the brain and proves that games are an asset in mental development. Thus, gamification can be used to provide a fun learning environment. In this article, the authors discuss how gamification has been implemented in various applications over the years, people's take on gamification and gamified apps from a survey and interview conducted, and thereafter design a student-oriented gamified study app, Gamesy, that makes use of game elements to improve performance in school and change/improve study habits in a game environment via progressive game design. With this, better performance may be realized in the tertiary education level.

A Study of Gamified Teaching Activities for Enhancing Motivation in Grade 6 Primary School Students —an Example of Instructional Design Model on a Field Course

“…Waweru W. B., Ng S. Joseph P. and Eaw C. H. developed a gamified learning application, had the respondents use it and conducted surveys and interviews with the respondents. The results showed that the use of gamification could enhance students' intrinsic motivation to learn, but the effectiveness of this enhancement is also limited by the students' own willingness to do so [6]. Nand, K., Baghaei, N., Casey, J., Barmada, B., Mehdipour, F., Liang, H. N. A feature-rich version and a feature-poor version of a game were given to primary school children, and the result was that the feature-rich version was better able to engage children's interests and facilitate their learning [7].…”