Gamification Part 2: What is a “Game”?
What is a game? Although there are different opinions about the definition of a game, here is one which Jonathan Cassie presents in his book Level Up Your Classroom (p. 11): All games are a combination of the four “mother mechanics: Agon, Alea, Mimicry, and Ilinx. The notion of four mother mechanics comes from Roger Caillois,…