What is gamification?

Gamification also called gamification is the use of game tools and oriented thinking to enrich, improve or encourage productivity.

When we are children, mentors, to teach us, often encourage educational games, to improve our performance. Gamification uses similar principles to encourage production and competition and problem solving among its members.

Principles of using gamification, such as

Achievements levels.

User rating.

Using a progress bar or other visual metric that indicates how close people are to completing certain tasks a business is trying to encourage, such as filling out a profile on a social network or earning a loyalty reward for frequenting the store.

Virtual money.

Systems to reward, recover, exchange or gift points.

Challenges between users.