Video Game Achievement Notification System for Cross-Device Challenges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Networked leaderboards in video games primarily engage competitive players, failing to attract less competitive users and lacking a mechanism to dynamically inform and challenge friends about achievements in real-time across different devices.
Innovation Solution
A system that automatically sends a message to friends' devices when a player achieves a milestone, including a selectable element to start playing from the same game location, enabling them to attempt to surpass the achievement, using a central computer system that tracks goals and social networking data to determine interested parties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If networked leaderboards are used to track player achievements, then competitive players are engaged and their skills are recognized, but less competitive users are not attracted and fail to participate
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system segments players into different groups (competitive and less competitive) and provides tailored notifications for each. Competitive players receive leaderboard-based notifications, while less competitive players receive achievement-based notifications that highlight personal milestones and accomplishments, making the system adaptable to different player types.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system dynamically adapts its content and delivery based on player characteristics, game context, and achievement type. The system adjusts notification frequency, timing, and content to match player preferences and engagement levels, making the same leaderboard infrastructure serve multiple player segments effectively.
2Loss of information
If traditional leaderboards are used to display high scores, then player achievements are recorded and visible, but real-time dynamic notification and challenge mechanisms are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated feedback loops where achievement data is continuously monitored, processed, and converted into real-time notifications. When a player achieves a milestone, the system automatically generates and sends notifications to relevant players, creating a dynamic feedback mechanism that bridges achievement visibility with real-time engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system operates autonomously by automatically detecting achievements, determining appropriate recipients based on social graph data, and sending notifications without manual intervention. The system self-manages the entire notification workflow from achievement detection to delivery, enabling real-time dynamic notifications while maintaining achievement visibility.
3Reliability
If achievement milestones are tracked and rewarded, then player progress is recognized and community sense is built, but mechanisms to dynamically challenge friends across devices are absent
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it tracks achievements reliably, notifies players across different devices, and initiates challenges. A single notification message can contain achievement information, player profile data, and challenge initiation capabilities, making the system multi-functional and eliminating the need for separate mechanisms for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system acts as an intermediary between achievement tracking and friend challenges. It receives achievement data, processes it through social graph analysis to identify relevant friends, and delivers customized notifications that include challenge options. This intermediary layer connects reliable achievement tracking with ease of cross-device challenge initiation.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are described for automatically sending a popup or other message to another person's electronic device upon finishing a predetermined goal in a video game. The predetermined goal can be, for example, killing a first boss in under five minutes. The message to the friend can include a link or button enabled such that the friend can begin the game on his device in the same room, mission, scenario, etc. that the first player started out in so that the friend can attempt to duplicate or ‘one up’ the first player's achievement. Friends who are interested in receiving such messages can be determined from existing social networking sites.