Games & Business

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1. GAMES & BUSINESS DR VANISSA WANICK

2. WELCOME 欢迎 University of Southampton Winchester School of Art

3. NICE TO MEET YOU :) Dr Vanissa Wanick v.w.vieira@soton.ac.uk ‣

   PhD Games Design, MBA Marketing, ‣ BA Design
 ‣ More than 8 years of experience in the Design Industry ‣ 2 years teaching at the University of Southampton ‣ More than 20+ publications in the area of games research ‣ Teaching: Year 1 Games Design & PAS1,2 Design Management https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsa/about/staff/vwv1n12.page? 3

4. LEARNING OUTCOMES AT THE END OF THIS SESSION, YOU SHOULD

   BE ABLE TO: ▸ 1 - Identify the main applications of games in business contexts ▸ 2 - Discuss the influence of games in business contexts 6

5. TOPICS TOPICS ▸ Reasons for using games in business ▸

   Gamification ▸ Advergames ▸ Case studies & examples 7

6. GAMES MARKET IN THE WORLD #1ST CHINA 2.73 BILLION PLAYERS

   BY 2021 NEW SEGMENTS 8

7. WHAT IS A GAME? 9

8. “A GAME IS A GOAL-DIRECTED AND COMPETITIVE ACTIVITY CONDUCTED WITHIN

   A FRAMEWORK OF AGREED RULES” Lindley (2003) GAMES 10

9. “A GAME IS A SYSTEM IN WHICH PLAYERS ENGAGE IN

   AN ARTIFICIAL CONFLICT, DEFINED BY RULES, THAT RESULTS IN A QUANTIFIABLE OUTCOME” Salen and Zimmerman (2004) GAMES 11

10. WHY ARE GAMES IMPORTANT? WHEN YOU PLAY GAMES, HOW DO

    YOU FEEL? THINK & MAKE SOME NOTES 12

11. WHY ARE GAMES IMPORTANT? WHEN YOU PLAY GAMES, HOW DO

    YOU FEEL? NOW SHARE YOUR NOTES WITH YOUR PEERS. 13
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14. WHY ARE BRANDS USING GAMES? BRANDS USING GAMES “MORE THAN

    ANY OTHER MARKETING OUTREACH METHOD, GAMES ENCOURAGE ONGOING ENGAGEMENT” https://www.alistdaily.com/strategy/10-brands-using-games-fan-engagement/

15. “WHILE MARKETERS INSTIGATE THE BRANDING PROCESS, IT IS THE BUYER

    WHO FORMS A MENTAL PICTURE OF THE BRAND” Leslie De Chernatony, Creating Powerful Brands (2010) BRANDS 17

16. BRAND EQUITY SIX BUILDING BLOCKS Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring,

    and Managing Brand Equity" by Kevin Lane Keller. © Pearson Education Limited 2013 18

17. “ADVERGAMES ARE GAMES WHOLLY PARTIALLY OR AT LEAST TO SOME

    DEGREE DESIGNED TO CARRY A MESSAGE DESIGNED TO PERSUADE THE PLAYER TO CHANGE A BEHAVIOUR IN THE WORLD” Svahn (2005) ADVERGAMES
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19. Datsun 280 ZZZAP, the first videogame for advertising (screenshot from

    Bogost 2007) 21

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21. https://www.alistdaily.com/strategy/10-brands-using-games-fan-engagement/ 23

22. ADVERGAMES - IN A NUTSHELL… 24

23. “HOW CAN WE TAKE THOSE FEELINGS FROM GAMES AND APPLY

    THEM TO REAL- WORLD WORK?” Jane McGonigal - TED talk (2010) REALITY IS BROKEN 25

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25. https://education.minecraft.net/ COLLABORATION ASSESSMENT SOCIAL LEARNING

26. “GAMIFICATION” IS THE USE OF GAME DESIGN ELEMENTS IN NON-GAME

    CONTEXTS Deterding et al. (2011) GAMIFICATION 28

27. GAMIFICATION GAMIFICATION = PARTS / GAME = WHOLE Deterding et

    al. (2011) 29

28. GAMIFICATION AS PSYCHOLOGY IT IS MORE ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY… 30

29. EXAMPLES https://www.bunchball.com/customers/gamification-success-stories SAP Community Network Contributors are awarded points whenever

    other members rate their content with 4 or 5 stars or “like” the content in the system. This helps offset the behaviour of some people to “game” the system by flooding the community with low-value content just to get points. 31

30. A SMALL LIST… LIST OF EXAMPLES AND STATS ▸ SAP:

    The SAP Community Network regamified its already-mature reputation system, increasing usage by 400% and community feedback by 96% ▸ Spotify and Living Social: replaced annual reviews with a mobile, gamified solution with over 90% of employees participating voluntarily ▸ Deloitte: training programs that are gamified took 50% less time to complete and massively improved longterm engagement ▸ Microsoft: obtained 16x more feedback by people through its Communicate Hope gamified system https://yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/gamification-stats-figures/ 32
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32. ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES CRITICISM ▸ “I realize that gamification is

    the easy answer for deploying a perversion of games as a mod marketing miracle.” - Ian Boost, games scholar http://bogost.com/writing/exploitationware/ 34

33. ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES

34. ADVANTAGES engagement loyalty memory positive emotions/ experiences positive brand image

35. DISADVANTAGES could be negative and promote a negative brand image

    could make people do things they don’t want to do can be a “fad” can become boring

36. TRENDS

37. AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY THE “AR GAMING MARKET” IS EXPECTED

    TO REACH $284.93 BILLION BY 2023 https://www.marketingweek.com/2017/10/26/mobile-game-snatch-talks-competing-with-pokemon-go/ 39

38. AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY https://www.inc.com/james-paine/10-brands-already-leveraging-power-of-augmented-reality.html https://digiday.com/marketing/ikea-using-augmented-reality/ 40

39. SUMMARY ▸ Main applications of games in business contexts involve

    employee engagement, training and marketing ▸ Games are systems composed by goals and rules that evoke emotions and can change people’s behaviour ▸ Games can make people feel emotionally attached to a product / brand loyalty ▸ Gamification is about psychology ▸ Advergames are advertising in form of games and have been used for a long time ▸ Advantages: memory, positive emotions, engagement ▸ Disadvantages: if done wrong, it can create a negative brand image ▸ Challenges: keep people interested for a long time; “exploitationware” ▸ Trends: augmented reality and virtual reality 41

40. REFERENCES ▸ https://www.statista.com/statistics/748044/number-video-gamers- world/ ▸ https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/newzoo-2017-report-insights- into-the-108-9-billion-global-games-market/ ▸ https://www.reuters.com/brandfeatures/venture-capital/article? id=12766

    ▸ https://newzoo.com/insights/trend-reports/newzoo-global-games- market-report-2018-light-version/ ▸ https://newzoo.com/insights/infographics/china-games-market-2018/ ▸ https://education.minecraft.net/wp-content/uploads/ MEE_SEL_Case_Studies.pdf

41. REFERENCES ▸ Deterding, S., Dixon, D., Khaled, R. and Nacke,

    L., 2011, September. From game design elements to gamefulness: defining gamification. In Proceedings of the 15th international academic MindTrek conference: Envisioning future media environments (pp. 9-15). ACM. ▸ Huotari, K. and Hamari, J., 2012, October. Defining gamification: a service marketing perspective. In Proceeding of the 16th international academic MindTrek conference (pp. 17-22). ACM. ▸ Hamari, J., Koivisto, J. and Sarsa, H., 2014, January. Does gamification work?--a literature review of empirical studies on gamification. In 2014 47th Hawaii international conference on system sciences (HICSS) (pp. 3025-3034). IEEE. ▸ Koivisto, J. and Hamari, J., 2014. Demographic differences in perceived benefits from gamification. Computers in Human Behavior, 35, pp.179-188. ▸ Wanick Vieira, V., 2017. A framework for cross-cultural advergame design: a comparison between Brazil and the UK(Doctoral dissertation, University of Southampton). ▸ Wanick, V., Stallwood, J., Ranchhod, A. and Wills, G., 2018. Can visual familiarity influence attitudes towards brands? An exploratory study of advergame design and cross-cultural consumer behaviour. Entertainment Computing, 27, pp.194-208. ▸ Svahn, M., 2005, November. Future-proofing advergaming: a systematisation for the media buyer. In Proceedings of the second Australasian conference on Interactive entertainment(pp. 187-191). Creativity & Cognition Studios Press. ▸ Terlutter, R. and Capella, M.L., 2013. The gamification of advertising: analysis and research directions of in-game advertising, advergames, and advertising in social network games. Journal of Advertising, 42(2-3), pp.95-112.

42. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! 谢谢 v.w.vieira@soton.ac.uk @vanissa EMAIL ME IF

    YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS!