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.

http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=2000&q=xbox+achievements

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.

thanks trog, dling 40mb of slides and audio now!

http://www.casualconnect.org/content/Seattle/2008/pahariasea08.html

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.

ahahaha nats

also that TED talk with the guy talking about facebook farmville etc, he rants about achievements for a bit.

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.

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).

achievements in games lame me out.
waste of time that could of been spent making the game cooler.
i.e alan wake.

Just imagine if Sexual Relationships were Achievement based.

The entire Flag collection.

wth is black wings - like a pilot but for a black woman/man?

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 :/