Let's get Gamified! Explaining the Growing Trend of Gamification

Our first challenger approaches and this week it's Jenny Windom (@kimchica) Senior Influencer Manager at Kepler Interactive, Game Producer at Soft Not Weak, Content Creator, and former teacher. Jenny shares with us her industry insights, kind advice on making your way into gaming, and gentle reminders about what all we are capable of!

Quick play through our new series where we tryout a game and give you our first thoughts and impressions - QUICKLY! This week we're covering Melatonin. Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music.

Join us this week as we explore what gamification is, how it is used in different contexts, and how to make it work for your company, fitness, productivity, education, or marketing. We'll look at gamification examples, tips, and techniques, and discuss how to use game-based strategies to engage your audience and help them reach their goals. We'll also discuss the positive impact that gamification can have on school students, and how the skills they learn can be applied in the workplace.

It's a new year and we're starting at the very beginning of Easy Mode but going NG+. We revisit our first episode about main characters but this time we take it a totally different direction. This week we're going to breakdown what being a main character means today and how some characters are breaking molds. 

On this week's episode we're talking through the most challenging ways people have played video games! From fruit and vegetables to musical instruments, innovative gamers are not Keeping it Easy Mode through these mad methods 

In this week's episode we get the download on games that went from in front of our faces to on our screens and even out of our minds!

On this weeks episode of Easy Mode we break down the facts Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard

Call an exterminator cause we're getting buggy this week. With the recent Pokemon launch that was not up to par according to the players, we look back at other bad launces, redemptions, and more!

And the award for Easy Mode of the year goes to this episode! It's award season and we're talking about The Game Awards. All previous winners, how the nominations are made and chosen, and our thoughts and predictions on this year's nominees! 

This week we talk about the choice or illusion of it in video games! What makes people choose good or evil? Why? and HOW?!