Need an escape from the world that you know? Immerse yourself into a completely different environment full of adrenaline or peace. Need to learn a new skill? Use virtual hands and tools to perform complicated tasks. Discover new looks for yourself and your home before making a real change. All of this can be accomplished virtually through interactive digital games.
Whether using interactive digital gaming to escape, learn, or envision possibilites, users have the ability to fully immerse themselves into a new environment and interact with features around them. Companies and organizations can adopt this interactivity into their long-term plan through a variety of gamification techniques focused on attracting attention, motivating, and teaching. Through an immersive environment, gamification can increase engagement in activities, resulting in a better understanding of what is being presented and more enjoyment in the task.
Ways to Immerse in a Gamified Application
Through gamification design and technology, a wide variety of applications can transform a ho-hum chore to an exhilarating interactive activity. Gamification can make learning fun, training easy, and marketing successful since it’s all based on interacting and engaging with the task at hand. Gamers can immerse themselves into another world through role-playing activities to either learn something new or simply escape their day-to-day and relax. Innovation can blossom from stepping outside of the box and into a new, more inspiring environment.
Try on a new look, paint a room a new color, learn a new skill, and do so much more, all through online games. Businesses can use immersive gamification to enhance their training techniques and marketing strategy, while PC gamers can use interactive gamified websites to enhance their everyday tasks. It’s a win-win for both companies and consumers.
Immersive game design has particularly potent applications in healthcare. Both medical students and current practitioners can benefit from learning experiences that simulate all the elements of clinical practice in a risk-free environment. This is exactly what DDA Games' virtual medical simulations do. Through a combination of video, animation, immersive 3D clinical environments, voice-over narration, game-like interactive challenges, and instant, real-time feedback, virtual medical simulations take medical students and clinicians through complex medical procedures using new equipment and techniques in a way that thoroughly satisfies the senses and inspires active participation. The essential prinicples of virtual medical simulation design are based in gaming principles, and the deep engagement and lasting knowledge these training platforms produce in users demonstrates their value.
Gamified design elements can also be incorporated into more traditional forms of continuing medical education (CME) platforms. Periodic tests can challenge users to demonstrate their knowledge aquisition, with lessons punctuated by interactive segments designed to get trainees thinking more deeply about core issues in the learning material as they progress. Interactive exercises that test knowledge can be incorporated to assess understanding in a more entertaining way than typical multiple choice questions. Scoring can be tied to both correct actions and the time taken to achieve results, and scores can be compared across users and among groups of users in leaderboards designed to enhance competition. Multimedia features, from 2D and 3D animation to synchronized media, all work to enhance learning experiences, increase user engagement, and thus effect lasting results.
Are you looking for a way to make your application or interactive platform more compelling and rewarding? Contact DDA Games, a gamification developer that has industry-leading experience in creating virtual environments that enhance teaching and training while increasing end user satisfaction.
