Step 1: Plan your game
The Ultimate Plan allows you to use all challenges, activities, and reward types for maximum flexibility and improved audience engagement.
There are four things that you need to do plan your game:
Schedule your Kickoff Meeting (Look for Email)
Define the Player's Journey
Create your game theme (or Pick a theme)
Plan your game content
Templates & Guides
Kickoff Agenda: Click here
Theme: Theme Guide
Graphics Templates & Specs: Graphics Guide
Challenges: Challenges Guide
Sample Challenge Spreadsheet: Click here
Define the Player's Journey
Put yourself in your player's shoes and think about their journey, from the very beginning up until the very last challenge they complete. Ask yourself the following questions:
Introduce players to the game
How do you plan to introduce and market the game?
How (and where) will players access the game to get started?
Game experience
What does the game look like?
Will this game be embedded into your existing mobile event app?
Are players entering a code or are they scanning QR codes?
What will players do to earn points?
Winning the game
What will they earn for participating?
How will they earn an entry into the raffle drawing? Should they be able to earn multiple raffle entries or just one entry?
Concluding the game
How will you end the game?
How will winners be announced?
How will players get their prizes?
As you determine the answers to these questions, you'll find out how you want the game to be played by your attendees. These answers will help you easily set up your game.
Pick Your Theme
Themes and branding contribute to the success of your game. With SocialPoint there are two ways to create a fun theme for your game:
SocialPoint Theme Library: Browse Themes
Create Your Own Theme: Graphics Guide
Expert Support
Each SocialPoint Project is assigned a Customer Success Project Manager who will guide you through the process of setting up your SocialPoint Game.
They will:
Organize a Kickoff meeting to review your timeline and game plan
Set up your game
Help with your Dry Run
Get you ready to launch your game
Guides
Theme: Graphics Guide
Challenges: Ultimate Challenges Guide
Leaderboards: Attendee Participation Game Leaderboards
Raffle Drawing: How to Create and Manage Rewards
Step 2: Initial game set-up
There are two ways to setup your game:
SocialPoint Expert Support
Setup the game yourself
SocialPoint Expert Support
Your Customer Success Team member will meet with you and discuss the content needed and when it will be due. They will need three days to setup your game. Here's what they will need from you:
Graphics and theme
Challenges
Rewards
Setup the Game Yourself
Another Option is to setup the game yourself. Here is a brief overview of the steps that you will need to create your initial game and theme.
Setup Registration and Login: Click for Instructions
Setup Your Game Theme: Click for Instructions
Create Game Instructions: Click for Instructions (Instruction examples)
Customizing Labels: Click for Instructions
Looking for your game?
Locate the email with the subject line: SocialPoint [Event Access] from customersuccess@socialpoint.io.
If you cannot find the email, visit https://app.socialpoint.io, enter your email address, and click "Forgot Password." You'll receive an email to reset your password and log in. Check your spam folder if you are still waiting to receive the email after 15 minutes, or contact customersuccess@socialpoint.io.
Step 3: Add Challenges
Challenges will give players points and rewards. There are multiple options to choose from, here's a list as well as detailed instructions on how to add them:
Click here for a list of challenges available to APG
Click here to learn how to add an In-app Challenge
Click here to learn how to add a Check-in Challenge
Click here to learn how to add a Staff-Scored Challenge
Click here to learn how to add a Trivia Challenge
Click here to learn how to add a Photo Challenge
Click here to learn how to add a QR Code Check-in Challenge
Step 4: Set your Rewards
There are 3 reward types and 3 different leaderboards you can use for your game. You'll also want to define if your players are scoring as individuals or if they are playing as teams.
Instant Rewards: You can set up rewards to be instantly awarded to players who complete certain challenges or win points. Click here to learn more.
Drawing Entries: Players are entered into a drawing when scoring points. Click here to learn more.
Prize Wheel Spins: Players earn a chance to spin a Prize Wheel for scoring points. Click here to learn more.
Leaderboards: Show player rankings on a live display screen. There are 3 options available: Overall Leaderboard, Daily Leaderboard and Team Leaderboard. Click here to learn more.
Teams: Players can group up in teams and earn individual rewards. Click here to learn more.
Step 5: Conduct a dry run to test your game
Now that your game is set up, it's time to play a test game.
Click here to see our guide on testing your game
Click here for instructions on getting your game links, QR Codes and display links
Step 6: Go Live!
Now it's time to Go Live and turn on your game. Once players will start completing challenges and some questions may arise.
Click here to see a sample message for attendees
Click here to learn how to manage your challenges
Click here to learn how to manage your players
Click here for a Troubleshooting guide
Step 7: Wrap up
After the game is over, you it's important to review your games data and performance.
The Attendee Participation Game Dashboard is a high level management report to share with your leadership and game stakeholders.
Download all of your game data with these data download instructions.