Daniel DeSouza
Posted in Component Development 7 years ago
I was thinking about a cool way for users to spend their time on the website, something that would capture their mind and causing them to come back again and again.
I also wanted something to go with this existing component "User Points"
https://www.softlab24.com/product/view/3555/user-points
something the site can generate for the user to spend their accumulated points on.
How about a component that would allow or require the user to own a pet, take care of it and feed it and watch it grow from a baby to an adult, train it to fight and acquire skills and get stronger to challenge other site users to a duo to raise in ranking. The existing User Points component will be used to pay for food, supplies, training etc.
What do you think? Can anyone add to this idea?
Michael Zülsdorff
Replied 7 years ago
Nice idea, Daniel.
But as we have to note: The feedback isn't really overwhelming.
In fact, I had an almost similar idea some time ago. And that was: Offering four games at http://games.z-mans.net that need 2 members getting involved. A real new way to interact with someone, to compete ... or just having some fun in a community.
And the feedback? Close to zero. Aside from my beloved groupies Honey and Botox and two other people I invited personally no one here gave it a try ... and so I stopped working on that baby.
I don't know ... it looks like the majority of current social network users seems to feel overcharged with postings of more than 140 characters, hence - making friends with even 2 pages of game instructions most likeky is simply too much... :)
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