avatar goalseeker
DESCRIPTION
This prototype for a service which helps users realize their goals in incremental steps was developed for the Social Health project at Stanford in 2010TRANSCRIPT
Avatar Goalseeker
“The only thing you can do, is to improve yourself”-A. Gantert
Create an avatar to represent your current self
Customize your avatar, who will represent you, and your progress towards your goals
Set a Mega Goal and incremental milestones. Drop a coin to get started
Completing milestones grants coins, which unlocks clothing and accessories for your avatar
As you improve, your avatar improves:Get some spiffy threads and level up on the
Awesome Meter
Mobile Application
Manage your avatar experience fromYour mobile phone.-Check in on your goals and milestones
-Keep tabs on your friends, give thempowerups and tokens to keep them ontrack to achieving their goals
If you miss deadlines, your avatar will regress—you’ll lose powers and your clothes will turn to rags!
You’ll have to drop another token to get back into the action
Accomplishing Mega Goals unlocks special accessories like the Flaming Sword
Achieve more goals to unlock super swag
The more Mega Goals you accomplish and milestones you reach, the better the swag
Jetpack
If amazing superpowers and astounding swag aren’t enough, use the Power Creator to invent your own!
Supersonic Headphones
Plasma Hammer Fist
Power Creator
Your profile badge will show off your awesomeness on your Facebook Page, for your friends to see.
Friends can give Powerups and Tokens directly from your Profile Box
Support your friends’ Avatars on the friends page: give powerups when they
accomplish their goals
If you get sick or injured, your avatar hurts too – and waits until you are healthy to resume the quest for Ultimate Epicness. The ‘game’
pauses and doesn’t require tokens to resume.