Level Badger

Presentation for Level Badger, an open source framework to gamify any activity

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1. Level Badger Life's a game. How will you play it?
2. The Badgers • Eric Burns Eric Burns • Cooper Wickum Cooper Wickum • Alex Park Alex Park • Ron Giambalvo Ron Giambalvo
3. Why Does This Project Exist? Gamification typically involves applying game design thinking to non-game applications to make them more fun and engaging. Traditionally, “gamifying” an activity requires custom development work to integrate these game elements into an application.
4. Why is this a problem? • This type of gamification is too narrow in scope. i.e. 1 application per 1 activity • Ex: Foursquare only deals with location-based activities • This narrowness results in most gamification software being geared towards commercial businesses while the everyday user is left out in the cold
5. Our Goal • We set out to provide a broader tool than all others in the market by giving users the ability to gamify any activity of their choosing regardless of size. • In short, proprietary competitors gamify activities. We want Level Badger to gamify your life.
6. Introducing Level Badger • An Open Source framework built with Ruby on Rails and other Open Source technologies, where you can turn anything into a game. • Big & Small o Unlimited players, rewards, & users o A stable, reliable backend allows for easier scalability • Clean, streamlined layout design allows for highly customizable UI
7. Key Components (G.U.R.L) • Games o Any activity, big or small • Users/Players o Unlimited, Profiles, Friendships • Rewards o Customizable Badges awarded upon completion of tasks • Levels o Comprised of incrementing units
8. DEMO
9. Design We wanted to create an open source project that was easily readable with a logical architecture. We also wanted to make adding new features be with as little friction as possible.
10. Ruby (02-1993) was created because Yukihiro Matsumoto "wanted a scripting language more powerful than perl and more object-oriented than Python." Ruby License, FSF approved, GPL compatible, Copyleft Made for programmer productivity and fun, minimize the time it took for experienced programmers to read.
11. Ruby on Rails • Rails was created by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37Signals who made the project open source in 2005 • Convention over configuration, DRY, ActiveRecord, and MVC • MIT License • Database.yml, routes.rb
12. Git • Git cherry-pick • Git log --pretty=oneline
15. Models and Databases The truth lies in the models - ActiveRecord - Associations - Migrations
16. Game Model
18. REST Routes REpresentational State Transfer GET, POST, PUT, DELETE (CRUD) turns into INDEX, SHOW, NEW, CREATE, EDIT, UPDATE, DESTROY
20. RESTful Routes URL: Message localhost:3000/games/1/users/1/inventories HTTP verb: State
21. Config/Routes.rb
22. Feature history • Ability to create multiple games and users. • Ability to set the game’s unit of measurement. By default, this is XP. • Ability for a user to add 1 to their XP with the press of a button. • Progress bars to track the XP of all users in a game and compare them to each other.
23. • Ability to create multiple levels in each game. Levels are sorted by the amount of experience required to reach the next level. • Badges can be created and awarded whenever a user reaches a specific level. • Ability for users to create friendships • Users can add many email addresses into their profile on Level Badger.
24. Future Features • Upload your own badge images • Exporter for backend files for portability • Social media integration (Tweet when Badge earned) • Bundle app into a RubyGem o rails generate scaffold levelbadger