Thursday, April 15, 2010

Implementation

GPS location tracking is used to analyse users movements and behaviours through their environments. This will be tracked by their mobile phones.
Achievements can be created that are based and created upon location coordinates, altitudes, or date and time.


Co-ordinates of landmarks or specific locations can easily be obtained from google maps.

Lists of achievements can then created and pre-defined in the form of objectives, milestones or “feats of strength” for users to go out and achieve.
Upon meeting an achievement criteria, points are awarded to the user for achieving the objective.

Friends also playing lifeAchiev can be added to a social friends list.

The tallying of scores in the form of ‘lifePoints’ will be collected in an online database, tracked by individual users and compared against friends and other users of the application.

It is in our nature to be competitive, to strive for highest scores possible. It is what made the simple games back in the day so much fun.

The exploration and behavioural achievements become a social adventure amongst communities and friends in a real world setting.

Complex types of achievements add additional layers that are more than simply reaching a location. These include:

• MultiAchievments: seen as a grand award for completing smaller achievements and given as a bonus for completing a group of related objectives. An example of this would be for a restaurant business to give small achievements for visiting different locations of their food chains, maybe receiving ten points at each location, and then giving a multiAchievment reward of a hundred points and maybe a redeemable voucher should they collect five business locations.

• LimitedAcheivements handle achievements that are accessible to a total number of users that may achieve an objective. This enables a limit to be placed on how many users can obtain this ensuring that some really special achievements are rewarded to perhaps only one user or making it a ‘first come-first serve’ type of award.

• GroupAchievements require a certain number of users and their friends to be present as a group with the requirements specified to obtain this achievement. The number of users can vary per achievement. This promotes social involvement and interaction to obtain rewards which specify that perhaps ten friends need to be present at a party, function or a particular restaurant.

• FriendAchievements can be generated when a user creates an achievement to their friends list creating social objectives amongst their personal friendship rings listing and accessible only to the players associated to the creator.



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