Goals in Games and Life: How Really Different Are They?

Not as much as we might believe

Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Gameful Life
Published in
5 min readFeb 20, 2024

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Photo by VietNam Beautiful on Unsplash

“What defines a game are the goal, the rules, the feedback system, and voluntary participation. Everything else is an effort to reinforce and enhance these four core elements.”

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Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Gameful Life

Life gamer, life coach, author, engineer; originator of Self-Gamification — an art of turning life into fun games → optimistwriter.com