Avatar Goalseeker: Improve Yourself and Level Up
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This document describes an app called Avatar Goalseeker that allows users to create an avatar to represent themselves and track their progress toward goals. Users set milestones and mega goals for their avatar to accomplish, which unlocks accessories and powers for the avatar. As the user achieves more goals, their avatar improves with better accessories. Friends can support each other's avatars and give powerups for completing goals.
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Avatar Goalseeker: Improve Yourself and Level Up
- 1. Avatar Goalseeker âThe only thing you can do, is to improve yourselfâ-A. Gantert
- 2. Create an avatar to represent your current self
- 3. Customize your avatar, who will represent you, and your progress towards your goals
- 4. Set a Mega Goal and incremental milestones. Drop a coin to get started
- 5. Completing milestones grants coins, which unlocks clothing and accessories for your avatar
- 6. As you improve, your avatar improves: Get some spiffy threads and level up on the Awesome Meter
- 7. Mobile Application Manage your avatar experience from Your mobile phone. -Check in on your goals and milestones -Keep tabs on your friends, give them powerups and tokens to keep them on track to achieving their goals
- 8. If you miss deadlines, your avatar will regressâyouâll lose powers and your clothes will turn to rags! Youâll have to drop another token to get back into the action
- 9. Accomplishing Mega Goals unlocks special accessories like the Flaming Sword Achieve more goals to unlock super swag
- 10. The more Mega Goals you accomplish and milestones you reach, the better the swag Jetpack
- 11. If amazing superpowers and astounding swag arenât enough, use the Power Creator to invent your own! Supersonic Headphones Plasma Hammer Fist Power Creator
- 12. Your profile badge will show off your awesomeness on your Facebook Page, for your friends to see. Friends can give Powerups and Tokens directly from your Profile Box
- 13. Support your friendsâ Avatars on the friends page: give powerups when they accomplish their goals
- 14. If you get sick or injured, your avatar hurts too â and waits until you are healthy to resume the quest for Ultimate Epicness. The âgameâ pauses and doesnât require tokens to resume.
Editor's Notes
- Start in skivvies, and customize your avatar to represent you in the virtual space.
- The Mega Goal can be a concrete task, like finishing a project, or a diffuse goal like âget fasterââbut it has to be something that can be broken down into discrete milestones. Dropping a coin (virtual currency) is an investment in your goal, as coins are a scarce resource.
- Achieving the incremental milestones provides feedback on progress towards the overarching Mega Goal, and earning coins and upgrades for your avatar provides a way to show your progress to your social network.
- Leveling up on the Awesome Meter provides for comparison with friends, reinforcing the desire to work to achieve your goals.
- A mobile application provides access to your avatar away from the desktopâthe ubiquity of the mobile platform may be even more engaging than the desktop instantiation.
- Providing âpunishmentâ for not achieving your goals is a âstickâ to go with the carrot of upgradesâslacking off isnât free!
- Achieving the overarching goals gives super powers like the Flaming Sword, and as you achieve more goals, the more amazing things you can unlock. Curiosity and challenge keep people engaged with the application.
- CertainPowerups can only be provided by friends, you canât get fuel for your jetpack or lighting for your thundersticks, but your friends support makes everything goThe reciprocal relationship cements ties and makes you very interested in hitting your milestones, to keep your avatar moving (similar to the hyper-successful Farmville model).
- The reciprocal arrangement of the incentives provides for much more engagement â the big draw for Facebook is to see what cool comments people have