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Helping students and young professionals create a balanced lifestyle focusing on personal growth, continuous learning, and self-care

At Gameful Bits, our digital tools, resources, and learning materials use gameful design to help you organize your life, boost your learning capacity, and develop essential skills for a balanced and thriving life in a fun, positive, and engaging way.

Gameful Bits is operated by Dr. Gustavo Tondello, a gamification specialist, software engineer, researcher, and consultant.

If you want to apply gamification to your product or lifestyle, I can help you design personalized gameful solutions to create more engaging applications and experiences.

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News and original posts about gamification, gameful design, user experience

Consulting

I can help you design personalized gameful experiences or teach you how to do it

Research

Learn about my past and ongoing gamification research projects

Publications

Read all my latest academic publications on gamification and user experience

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Boss Battles & Milestones: How to Conquer Big Goals by Breaking Them Down
Hey adventurers! In our last escapade, "Your Daily Quest Board: Transform Your To-Do List into a Dynamic Adventure," we talked about turning those everyday tasks into exciting quests. I love how that practice can revamp our daily grind! But what about those huge …
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Your Daily Quest Board: Transform Your To-Do List into a Dynamic Adventure
Let's be honest, staring down a lengthy to-do list can feel less like a path to productivity and more like facing a grumpy final boss. Those endless bullet points often become a source of stress, a monument to everything you haven't done yet. Sound familiar?…
Level Up Your Year: Enhance Your Goals with Gamification
Juggling a million things – classes, work, social life, personal projects – often leaves New Year’s resolutions gathering dust. It’s a familiar struggle. We all have those big dreams: acing an exam, landing a dream job, mastering a new skill. But the daily grind can…