Your players are goal-oriented people who want to know how they "win" the game. Do they need to complete a journey? Get the most points? Complete X challenges?
From a player's perspective, the Player App records the completed challenges and points earned. These can be used to drive engagement and reward players who have completed your challenges.
Here are how you can reward your players:
Leaderboard Ranking
Drawing Entries
Instant Rewards
Prize Wheel Spins
This guide will walk you through the reward types and how they work. And when to use them.
Leaderboard Ranking
Players love to see their names in lights on the Leaderboard. They don't have to be winning as long as they are beating "Steve" or another friend.
SocialPoint has five types of leaderboards to choose from:
Individual Leaderboard
Group Leaderboard
Team Leaderboard
My Team Leaderboard
Daily Leaderboard
Note on Group Leaderboards
Group Leaderboards allow you to create separate leaderboards by attendee type. For example, you want separate leaderboards when two sales forces are in the same event. Or, when customers and employees are at the event together and you don't want employees showing up on the customer leaderboard.
How do Leaderboards work in the game?
As players earn points by completing challenges, their total points will increase and they will move up on the Leaderboard.
Players can track their progress on the Leaderboard in two ways:
Mobile leaderboards in the Player App
Large-screen leaderboards for Projection in front of the room
You can also choose to display a fully-branded leaderboard on a big screen or embed it into a website.
When do Leaderboards work best?
Leaderboards work best when players understand how to earn points and move up the Leaderboard.
Team leaderboards work best when then there are natural rivalries between teams.
What are the potential issues?
There are three potential issues with leaderboards.
Too many ties. A Leaderboard with 30 ties isn't fun to your most competitive players. These competitive players need a way to beat their colleagues. A straightforward solution is to add a trivia quiz with a countdown timer. Countdown timers capture response differences in fractions of a second, making all scores different. Another choice is opting for one of the other reward options.
Players at the bottom of the Leaderboard will stop playing. At some point, only the top 100 players will feel like they have a chance to win. Players 101 - 500 will start to disengage from the game unless you are using Teams or another reward to keep them engaged in your game.
Leaders get too far ahead and it feels like I can't win. Some players will skip ahead and try to complete all of the challenges right away, even if you didn't intend for them to do that. A common solution is to hide the challenges for day 2 and day 3, so they can't get too far ahead.
Drawing Entries
With SocialPoint, players earn an entry into a drawing for achieving a points threshold or completing several challenges. Players can earn one entry or several. You can set those rules.
SocialPoint automatically adds player names to a drawing wheel or a name picker (picking several names), so you only have to open and spin the wheel.
How do drawings work in the game?
Players can track their progress to the reward on the status screen.
Once they earn the reward, a popup will appear.
When you are ready to draw for your prizes, you can open up the wheel and spin it.
Prizes can be given out on the spot or later.
Mark off players who have earned a prize.
When do drawings (and name pickers) work best?
Drawings are best when players have a handful of activities to complete AND you have a limited number of prizes.
What are the potential issues?
Tracking prize giveaways. If you have a lot of winners, it can be hard to keep track of who received a prize and who still needs to come up and claim their prize. With SocialPoint, you can easily mark the player as having received the award; this way, you can easily see who still needs to come pick up their prizes.
Preventing players from winning multiple prizes. Socialpoint will remove one entry from a player from the drawing when they win a prize. If that player has multiple drawing entries their name *Could* still appear again.
How to improve your game
If you have several names to draw, you can use the name picker to select up to 50 names at a time.
Instant Win
With SocialPoint, players earn prizes for achieving a points threshold or completing several challenges. Players can only earn one prize per Instant Win contest.
When a player earns a prize, SocialPoint will remove a prize from your inventory and give it to the player. Then, it updates the inventory. The award turns off when you need more prizes.
How does Instant Win work in the game?
Players can track their progress to the reward on the status screen.
Once they earn the reward, a popup will appear announcing they won the prize.
The Status screen will indicate the prize that the player won.
Prizes are redeemed later.
Mark players who have earned a prize.
When do Instant Rewards work best?
When the prize is known and in limited supply. Here are some examples:
Ticket to a concert
Backstage pass to a concert
Lunch with CEO
Planting a tree in your honor.
Branded fleece
What are the potential issues?
Tracking prize giveaways. If you have a lot of winners, it can be hard to keep track of who received a prize and who still needs to come up and claim their prize. With SocialPoint, you can easily mark the player as having received the award; this way, you can easily see who still needs to come pick up their prizes.
Virtual Prize Wheel
With SocialPoint, players earn prize wheel spins for achieving a points threshold or completing several challenges. Players can earn one or more prize wheel spins depending on your criteria.
When a player goes to spin the prize wheel, the game will verify that the player has earned a spin and HAS NOT spun already. After the player spins, SocialPoint will remove a prize from your inventory and give it to the player. The player can track the prizes that they have won.
How does the Virtual Prize Wheel work in the game?
Players can track their progress to the reward on the status screen.
Once they earn the reward, a popup will appear announcing they won the prize.
The Status screen will indicate the number of spins and prizes they have won.
Prizes can be redeemed at the point of spin or later.
Mark players once they have received their prize.
When do Virtual Prize Wheels work best?
You have lots of prizes and an efficient process for distributing those prizes.
What are the potential issues?
Staffing Prize Giveaways. Make sure that you have enough staff for your giveaway.