Packaging design is great for a lot of reasons. When you leverage packaging in order to create playful experiences, it enhances everything. One such manner is unboxing and gaming.
People love games. They make it fun, exciting, and thrilling for all sorts of people. Giving people a game that they can play while unboxing is magical in a sense, because it allows them to really interact with the items that they have. Here, we’ll go over how the gamification of things is being used for the better of many people’s lives, ensuring that you’re getting the same high-quality experience all around.
Th Examples OF Such
There’s a lot of great examples of this type of packaging.
One of the most common is puzzle boxes, which are boxes that can offer puzzles for people to solve.
The second one is hidden compartments, which you can further add to a game by making it so that customers need to solve these things in order to progress.
Finally, there’s AR and VR treasure hunts. These are made with the AR and VR technologies that people love, thereby enhancing the overall experience and really making it fun for everyone. It’s a simplistic game, but the results of such are out of this world.
The applications
Some of the most popular applications are in the world of subscription boxes. So many subscription boxes love to add these games to everything, because the person who gets this every single month is able to bring these boxes to life and really make things shine.
The second one is holiday packaging. Adding some fun holiday games to your packaging brings people together, and makes the holiday seasons even more fun.

The third application is kids toys. A lot of kids toys benefit from this type of packaging, because let’s face it, kids love games. Parents love them too, and when you’re able to bring a game into all of this, then you’ve come to the right place.
The Benefits
There’s a lot of great benefits for adding games to your packaging. It might not seem like much, but there are some expansive benefits worth mentioning when we look at games and incorporate them into the overall packaging experience.
It boosts engagement, which is something that so many people are able to enjoy. More engagement means more spread and awareness of what you have to offer as a packaging or business provider.
The other benefit is that it encourages social media sharing. Again, better brand engagement with both new and old people, and also incorporates better experiences on all fronts.

The third reason is that it makes everything memorable. Memorable packaging plays such a large part in the overall success of your packaging that it’s no wonder why people will enjoy it. Being able to handle all of this and give a worthwhile customer experience really enhances the overall hype that you feel with your packaging, and gives people a boost of encouragement.
So yes, when you give your customers something like this, it changes the game.
Future Trends
The next step with this packaging is to create fully-integrated forms of digital games that are triggered by physical packaging interactions. While still a ways away, it’s one to consider, and really enhances the experiences on all fronts, and really creates a worthwhile packaging interaction not just with the brand, but the customers too, improving the overall scope of each of the interactions, and boosting your overall online presence for not just now, but also for future experiences with new and old customers that come around as well.

