You've Been Played
How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

There's some interesting material in You've Been Played, waiting to be discovered - but it could have been a lot better if Adrian Hon had gone with a co-author: unfortunately, as a book it's no great shakes. Let's do the interesting thing first. Hon is talking about gamification - the (clumsily named......more

I am a gamer, and I have generally thought of gamification as a good thing. Wouldn't it be great to take the qualities that I love about game playing and embed them into other parts of life to make them more fun and challenging and to make us feel better about doing mundane things that make the worl......more

This book was an interesting account of how gamification can be very negative. Nowadays, work, fitness, diets, everything is becoming gamified. Gamification can be done in a positive way but generally it’s manipulative and/or based on outdated behavioral science. I often find myself being influenced......more

“With today’s gamification, you’re no longer the player—you’re being played.” This is the central premise of this book and what an interesting book it is! No, there are no scare tactics or conspiracies here. The author simply and adeptly explores the reasons behind the gamification of so many things......more

loved it! awesome look and super personal, loved how it interwove so much of his own experience with gamification in work and personal life and other real world examples.......more