Retention Royale: a Gamified Territory-Conquest Add-on for Anki to Enhance Engagement with Spaced Repetition
Anki is widely used by medical students, yet sustaining motivation remains challenging amid high burnout rates. Retention Royale is a free, open-source Anki add-on that gamifies flashcard review to promote student learning through territory conquest, rewarding study performance with in-game currency. The add-on is available on AnkiWeb (Code: 311670562).
Authors
- Mill Etienne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8086-3986)
- Syed Shehroz Hussain
- Chase Goldberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1695-8715)
- Tobias Whitford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1144-8675)
Institutions
- New York Medical College (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Medical Science Educator
- Published
- 2026-04-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-026-02721-8
- Primary Topic
- Educational Games and Gamification
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00