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Vodafone E-learning Game Experience

Project name: Vodafone Supermobile
Category: E-learning Game; Gamification / Serious Games / ARG; Internal Communication
Client: Vodafone Italia
Technologies: Ludum; HTML5, Actionscript 3.0; Ruby On Rails
Target: Vodafone Italia’s 8.000 Employees

Alittleb.it has conceived and created an alternate reality game, developed for Vodafone’s employees, in order to teach smartphones’ technologies.

The e-learning game was developed by the exploitation of LUDUM: an alittleb.it’s platform designed and developed to ensure a unified, complex but immediate gaming experience.

Alittleb.it opted for a strategy that involved interactive and experiential learning, maximizing the element of fun to promote the interest and the active approach of Vodafone employees.
The gamified experience takes place at the same time on pc browsers, smartphones’ screens and in the real world, creating real offline experiences into Vodafone’s offices.Read More

Game-based marketing instruments

The Game-based Business Solutions use the game mechanics and dynamics of games to create solutions for enterprises. They can be reach using two instruments: gamification and game-based marketing.
So, Game-based Business Solutions are new communication and marketing instruments (sometimes almost a new media) that allow to extremely increase the engagement and the participation of the communication target public.
Engagement and participation, in particular, allow two main advantages:

to drive the active interest of users toward the massage of firms;
to stimulate an active behavior of users

As we already said gamification is the implementation of gaming mechanics in non-gaming context to involve people in the activities of a site or service.
A parallel concept is the game-based marketing, that uses real and complete games for raising the awareness and improving the image of a brand.

Game-based marketing uses many different instruments and environments to spread messages and reach users. We’re going to analyze all these instruments to help choosing the right one for every single business objective.
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