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Good article on Achievements ?
d0mino
Brisbane, Queensland
4981 posts
Hello,

I am looking for an article that explains the benefits and motivations behind online achievements. I am talking about things like Xbla gamerscore, ps3 trophies, foursquare and iphone app like Epic Win.

Anyone read anything good on this topic plz post articles here.
03:37pm 20/09/10 Permalink
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Pinky
Melbourne, Victoria
7232 posts
I liken them to when you ask your dog to sit and he does, then you say "GOOOOOOD BOYY!!!!" and give him a biscuit.

Then he will sit more often when you ask it of him.

Something to do with the reward centre of your brain ;-)
03:40pm 20/09/10 Permalink
fpot
Gold Coast, Queensland
18378 posts
03:42pm 20/09/10 Permalink
Red
Sydney, New South Wales
568 posts
Hmm, not sure it exactly applies, but I like it and it contains the word achievement.

cliq
03:42pm 20/09/10 Permalink
trog
AGN Admin
Brisbane, Queensland
32081 posts
The inspiration for the AG system largely came from a GDC talk by Rajat Paharia titled "Your Own Zombie Army - Driving User Behavior with Game Mechanics and Behavioral Economics". I mentioned it in the Achievements news post comments and someone was able to track it down online so it should still be available somewhere. It is a good read and has some more references about behavioural economics that are also good reads.
03:44pm 20/09/10 Permalink
greazy
Brisbane, Queensland
4004 posts
03:45pm 20/09/10 Permalink
d0mino
Brisbane, Queensland
4982 posts
thanks trog, dling 40mb of slides and audio now!

http://www.casualconnect.org/content/Seattle/2008/pahariasea08.html
03:51pm 20/09/10 Permalink
thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
6473 posts
03:57pm 20/09/10 Permalink
FaceMan
Brisbane, Queensland
4318 posts
Theres a Napolean quote that goes a bit like this:
"Soldiers will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

Its about keeping you in the game and spending more money.
04:01pm 20/09/10 Permalink
natslovR
Sydney, New South Wales
6895 posts
A bit of ribbon and rape n pillage
04:27pm 20/09/10 Permalink
greazy
Brisbane, Queensland
4005 posts
ahahaha nats
04:39pm 20/09/10 Permalink
TicMan
Melbourne, Victoria
6277 posts
I just watched that video thermite pasted and it's an interesting watch. It opened my eyes up to some potential reward/point based system that could be implemented at my current work.
04:42pm 20/09/10 Permalink
reload!
Brisbane, Queensland
5678 posts
also that TED talk with the guy talking about facebook farmville etc, he rants about achievements for a bit.
05:31pm 20/09/10 Permalink
Whoop
Brisbane, Queensland
17049 posts
the only thing you need to know about achievements is that they're purely for e-peen, nothing more. So you can go to your mates hey look at me I played halo for 100 hours straight this week, got the pretty skirt achievement for camping and your mates can laugh at you calling you a nerd faggot as they walk off leaving you feeling worthless because they have wives and children, all you have is your gamerscore.
05:52pm 20/09/10 Permalink
Tiny
Brisbane, Queensland
2135 posts
I love it when the gold star appears when I am playing a round of BC2. I usually switch between medic and engineer and do lots of healing and repairing to get the badges.

I likes it.
05:55pm 20/09/10 Permalink
Spock
Brisbane, Queensland
1476 posts
this has been going on for years guys, with things like "employee of the month"
06:01pm 20/09/10 Permalink
step
Brisbane, Queensland
2067 posts
I love it when the gold star appears when I am playing a round of BC2.
It's painful when you need to start resorting to shotguns (so should of used them pre-nerf) to get gold stars now. Have all the assault and medic (bar mg3, shit gun).
06:40pm 20/09/10 Permalink
evıs
Brisbane, Queensland
6336 posts
^are you kidding, the shotgun is AWESOME.
08:11pm 20/09/10 Permalink
lewd
Brisbane, Queensland
1243 posts
achievements in games lame me out.
waste of time that could of been spent making the game cooler.
i.e alan wake.
08:20pm 20/09/10 Permalink
parabol
Brisbane, Queensland
6001 posts
since i bought an xbox i've had to adjust to getting an achievement after finishing the first map of any game. like, gf that's not an achievement!
09:02pm 20/09/10 Permalink
FaceMan
Brisbane, Queensland
4319 posts
Just imagine if Sexual Relationships were Achievement based.
10:00pm 20/09/10 Permalink
thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
6476 posts
Well there's losing your v-plates, getting your black wings, chlamydia, etc...
10:02pm 20/09/10 Permalink
Scooter
Brisbane, Queensland
3382 posts
The entire Flag collection.
10:04pm 20/09/10 Permalink
Nerfosaurus
Brisbane, Queensland
858 posts
I have a great ted talk on the subject bookmarked, but it seems to be lost in about 200 other bookmarks on procedural generation and I can't find it.
07:05am 21/09/10 Permalink
Spock
Brisbane, Queensland
1477 posts
wth is black wings - like a pilot but for a black woman/man?
01:46pm 21/09/10 Permalink
konstie
Melbourne, Victoria
1537 posts
since i bought an xbox i've had to adjust to getting an achievement after finishing the first map of any game. like, gf that's not an achievement!


halo reach has an achievement for each level you finish on herioc / legendary. Lame.
02:04pm 21/09/10 Permalink
thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
6479 posts
Spock - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2324797993


Pink Wings = Normal Sex

Brown Wings = Anal Sex

Red Wings = Period Sex

Baby Pink Wings = Sex With A Virgin

Green Wings = Sex Outside

Camo Wings = Sex While The Other Person Is Asleep

Water/Blue Wings = Sex In Water

Silver Wings = Sex With Someone With A Genital Piercing

Gold Wings = Your First Golden Shower

Orange Wings = Sex With A Disabled Person

Yellow Wings = Sex With An Oriental Person

Grey Wings = Sex With Somone Over 50

Purple Wings = Sex With A Pregnant Girl

Black Wings = Sex With Dead Person

Glitter Wings = Sex With Under 16 (in reference to Gary "how did that child porn get on my computer?" Glitter

White Wings = Sex With A Nun Or Other Religious Leader

Technicolour Wings = Completing 3 or more wings at the same time (eg shagging a pregnant 55 year old outside)

Chicken Wings = When after more than 3 chances to score you have either backed out or failed and instead gone home to masterbate. "Well done, you have achieved you chicken wings, loser".

Rainbow Wings = Gay or Lesbian sex.

Ginger Wings = Sex With A Ginger Person

Star Wings = Sex On A Rooftop

Stealth Wings = Sex with somone whilst somone else present is not aware (for example....a friends room while they are asleep next to you)

Buffalo wings = sex with person you is very overweight

Snow White Wings = Sex with a dwarf or midgit

Romero Wings = Sex in a graveyard
(as in George Romero's Films )

Easy Rider Wings = Sex on a motor bike (Sex with a motor bike does not count, thats just plain wrong)

Rodeo Wings = Mid sex, shouting somone else's name (past lover's usually works best) then seeing how long you can 'ride rodeo' before being bucked off. Works best in doggy style.

Trogg Flaps = Not necessarily a good achievement. Trogg = dog + troll. Basically, sex with anyone who is that disgracefully horrific it is either hard to tell what sex they are of if they are indeed human at all. "ah mate, she was a trogg, what were u thinking"



I didn't mean black wings that way :/
02:13pm 21/09/10 Permalink
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