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Comments on: 7 Steps for Better Achievements https://www.radicaldog.com/blog/7-steps-for-better-achievements/ Radical Dog writes Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:19:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 By: Thomas https://www.radicaldog.com/blog/7-steps-for-better-achievements/#comment-8670 Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:25:34 +0000 http://www.radicaldog.com/blog/?p=411#comment-8670 Thanks!

]]> By: Your friend, Sophie https://www.radicaldog.com/blog/7-steps-for-better-achievements/#comment-8669 Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:03:30 +0000 http://www.radicaldog.com/blog/?p=411#comment-8669 Thanks, Thomas! That makes a great deal of sense (and it now seems so obvious now that you’ve told me).

Keep up the amazing work!

]]> By: Thomas https://www.radicaldog.com/blog/7-steps-for-better-achievements/#comment-8668 Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:44:53 +0000 http://www.radicaldog.com/blog/?p=411#comment-8668 Good question! So, there’s a few marks of bad achievements;

– Huge time investment in activities that the players wouldn’t want to do otherwise
– Forcing a player to have a certain level of engagement
– Obviously cynical ones, e.g. “Share on social media!”

Basically, anything where the achievement rewards something that wasn’t fun on its own. I’m sure this list can be added to, but if a developer avoids these it should be fine.

An example of a bad achievement is Rayman Legends’ “Totally Awesome”, which requires around 50% more points than can be collected in single player. In fact, it requires grinding daily challenges to a high skill level for over *80 days*. This is using the completionists’ impulses to force an online community into existence, when honestly there is no reason to boot that (otherwise excellent) game up 80+ times.

]]> By: Your friend, Sophie https://www.radicaldog.com/blog/7-steps-for-better-achievements/#comment-8667 Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:20:46 +0000 http://www.radicaldog.com/blog/?p=411#comment-8667 Great article! Just wondered if you had any further thoughts about *how* you can be more responsible in relation to 5? How can you make sure it’s ‘fun’ and not as likely to be abused by the group of gamers you describe?

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