Real Life Rewards - Granularity Property

Jan 12 (edited) • Basics

One type of rewards that are frequently present in games we focus on in this community are things/actions we allow ourselves to do as a result of doing desired actions (e.g. working on a project or going to the gym). It can be for example eating something sweet or watching some movie. Let me review some important things about this subject.

Today's 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 property.

Best if rewards can be easily granularized - chunked into smaller portions. If reward has no such property then it's more difficult to use it in a gamified scenario.

Very good granular reward is time spent on the internet - you can just set how many minutes you can use it and stop when the timer says the time passed.

Generally time-based rewards are great - there are so many options to split time.

Now consider watching some movie series on Netflix. It's a slightly worse reward as it's not that rewarding (motivating) to watch 20% of the movie. Or drink half of the coffee.

There are even rewards that aren't granular at all - for example buying yourself some expensive gift.

There are a few ways to make nongranular rewards more granular.

You can use in-game 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 to buy a real-life reward. For example you need to have 1000 coins to watch an episode in Netflix so you need to "earn" in-game money to spend it on this reward.

Another way is to use 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝘁 game technique. For example, to watch an episode on Netflix you need to gather some game cards A, B, C, D and E and you can win them by doing desired actions. You have to have them all to be able to watch an episode.

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 - 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡'𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡.

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