gamification

English

Etymology

gam(e) +‎ -ification

Noun

gamification (plural gamifications)

1. The use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications (as for example making work less onerous, incentivization, or pedagogy).
   • 2013, Dave Eggers, The Circle, Vintage Books, page 373:

     Homelessness could be helped or fixed, she knew, once the gamification of shelter allotment and public housing in general was complete.

Related terms

• game theory
• gaming
• play games

 

Translations

use of gameplay

• Bulgarian: игровизация f (igrovizacija), геймификация f (gejmifikacija)
• Catalan: ludificació f, gamificació f
• Czech: gamifikace
• Finnish: pelillistäminen
• French: ludification (fr) f
• Galician: ludificación f
• German: Gamification f, Gamifikation f, Gamifizierung f, Spielifikation f, Gamifizierung f
• Italian: ludicizzazione f
• Portuguese: ludificação (pt) f
• Russian: игрофикация (ru) f (igrofikacija), геймификация (ru) f (gejmifikacija)
• Serbo-Croatian: igrifikacija f, igrofikacija f
• Slovene: poigritev
• Spanish: ludificación (es) f, gamificación f (anglicism)
• Swedish: spelifiering (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ігрофікація f (ihrofikacija), гейміфіка́ція f (hejmifikácija)