“Experience Points”

Roman’s sources:

• read duolingo’s pages / blogs about XP in duolingo, Wikipedia
• talked to young people (early 20’s) / gamers with experience

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TAKEAWAYS:

• XP and LEVELS - FAMILIAR concepts: all gamers know, many young people know
  • (few know ELO.)

• we want to reward ACITIVITY
• for us: activity is primary, achieving is secondary
• growing indefinitely
• never decreases
• works to support LEVELS (underneath)

• find potential partners in the game
• find worthy opponents
• by accumulating some amount of XP, but not only
• (? maybe not quite milestones - maybe FINITE milestones can be based on ABILITY?)
• a concrete way for user to know how to get to next level
• never decreases

• map LEVELS → currency: ???
• each time level up get X amount of CURRENCY
• increases with a bigger LEVEL
• up and down
  • to be USED
    • streaks
    • (more purchases — can wait for a bit later)

• map XP → LEVEL
• level 1 -> level 2, 50xp, 75xp, … 500 — SPECIFY a formula

• finish story: N XP — for N snippets ( IMPLEMENTED )
• BONUS for complete 10 snippets: 2 XP
• BONUS for maintaining daily streak: 1-10 - 10 XP, 10-20 12 XP, …
• BONUS for upload own story and finish it: 20 XP
• batch of 20 normal flashcards: 3 XP
• batch of 5 BLUE flashcards ALL CORRECTLY DONE: 10 XP
  • if even 1 mistake - 3 XP
• complete crossword: 10 XP
• BONUS for complete competition: 3x # of snippets XP if won, 1 XP if lost
• complete AT LEAST 1 hour of practice in one day/session: 10 XP ( IMPLEMENTED )

• extend streak by 1 day: 1 in currency?
• buy free hints for exercises ??