Remove Points from Terminology Index

[shervine]

@grumo Based on my Game Design Research, I learned that:

• Games make no sense, which is why we take them so seriously!
• There is something unreasonable, and foolish, about playing games
• The way you design FUN is by treating the thing you're doing EXACTLY as it is and by giving it the RESPECT it deserves

This last point really struck me! Instead of trying to become more like other games, I think we have to fully embrace the difficulty of execution and accomplishing ones goals, and building our "gamified" model around our tough Bootcamp positioning, not some silly game.

Really encourage you to checkout this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78rPt0RsosQ

I also realized points have no connection to anything else (they don't even account for your completion prize), so I am thinking its best to reposition the leaderboard as follow:

• [x] Replace Points with Hours
• [ ] Say "This Bootcamps Required 58 Hours to Complete" and then "You've Completed 15 Hours so far". Give them perspective per hour, not per point.
• [x] Remove point estimates from Instructor Task Dropdown
• [x] Delete gamified Article in Zendesk

@grumo Would love to hear your thoughts

[grumo]

@shervine the beauty of having a made up unit to store rewards is that it gives you a lot of flexibility as to what value assign to it. Points work well for gamification because of that reason. The statement "You've Completed 15 Hours so far" won't be accurate in most cases as some students will accomplish tasks faster than others. However, "You've earned 600 points so far worth of work" would apply to everyone. The next thing for points to make sense is to assign them some kind of value. This could be done by the instructor or by Mench. The instructor could say; anyone that gets more than 75% of the total available points will be eligible for a 60 min free consultation.

[grumo]

@shervine I just watched the Youtube video your suggested. To me this stuck: "Trying to make things FUN by gamifiying them is like covering with sugar to avoid facing the real job" -> If you cover the truth then you're telling a lie.

I'm not sure if completing tasks has enough intrinsic reward except for those that are naturally self-driven and derive pleasure from accomplishing things.

Instead of points we could recognize their work so far with messages like:

• Congrats! you've complete 50% of your tasks so far!
• Hey {first_name}, you only have 3 tasks left to do. You can do it!
• Well done! you've completed 75% of your tasks! Click the button below to finish the last 25%. Onwards!

[shervine]

@grumo Love your last message, and agree with the point that you made on your 1st message which is having direct hours would not be applicable equally as different people have different speeds. I think you second solution is even better than mine, and we can keep the percentage completion as the primary unit for everyone to see. We don't really need both points and the percentage! So I think it would work great if we keep percentage and add the messages that you suggested in the automated messages so we can get students through the finishing line 🙌​

[grumo]

Yeah!

Miguel Hernandez Co-Founder @ Mench.co [ Learning Reimagined ] Vancouver - Canada +1-650-918-4400

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 5:30 PM, Shervin Enayati notifications@github.com wrote:

@grumo https://github.com/grumo Love your last message, and agree with the point that you made on your 1st message which is having direct hours would not be applicable equally as different people have different speeds. I think you second solution is even better than mine, and we can keep the percentage completion as the primary unit for everyone to see. We don't really need both points and the percentage! So I think it would work great if we keep percentage and add the messages that you suggested in the automated messages so we can get students through the finishing line 🙌​

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[shervine]

Remainder moved to #1295