Are you (not) engaged?
This post is essentially a press release on what has been happening with aeStranger and what can be expected in the future.
Are you (not) amused? An explorative series on how & what engages people
In this piece I look at what questions and criteria would be used when analysing how a person or company engage their audience.
Engaging your audience through loss aversion
In this piece I look at the technique of loss aversion, sunk cost and FOMO, and how these can be used to engage your audiences.
Audience engagement and audience experience
In this piece, I explore what audience engagement and audience experience design is, and why it is important for your company to have.
Congratulations! You’ve Won a Badge!
In this piece on gamification, I explore what badges are, what effect they have and how to use them correctly in your gamified projects.
Why Purpose is important for your gamified project
Purpose is one of the most important aspects of any gamified project. It gives drive and reason to your players and the actions they take.
Demons in the mind
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay author: @aestranger Reading time: 9 minutes Demons in the mind Deep in the shadows of an unknown murky realm there lives a race of beings, demons if you will, for lack of a better visual description. You may think that because they are labelled as demons that they are necessarily evil creatures. They […]
Popping into existence
Photo by Matthias Jlt on Unsplash author: @aestranger Reading time: 15 minutes Popping into existence Whenever you or others are walking in secluded areas and start talking about not having seen people in a while, then special individuals pop into existence for that very moment, to fill the need for people to pass by. When they’ve been passed by, […]
Dance Partners
Photo by Ardian Lumi on Unsplash author: @aestranger Reading time: 2 minutes Dance Partners Every time we leave the house now my partner and I participate in what has essentially become a rehearsed dance routine. I suppose one could call it the COVID Cha-cha-cha. We’ve gone through it a multitude of times now, we follow the rhythm of the […]
A brief look at resource determination for gamified projects
In this piece we quickly look at what questions to ask to determine what resources are availablie to you for your gamified project.
