Jananas

I’ve fallen off the Akoha train over the last little bit for a bunch of little reasons. I played 16 missions and half ran out of friends that I’m in regular contact with that I could play new missions with. I got swamped by school work, and sometimes fun things get pushed aside for a short while in order to get deliverables finished.

And partly because I noticed a trend amongst friends I had played with. Namely that they didn’t play it forward. Its difficult to stay fully engaged with a game like Akoha when you don’t get to watch the cards continue their journey (and read the future stories). In talking with a close friend we were trying to think of ways to get people to keep cards moving through life. Some of our suggestions are below (note, at a cursory glance/to our best knowledge these features don’t exist at the moment – if they do, well then ignore me!):

• Add the ability to “nudge” friends to remind them that they have a card
• Add the ability to reprint cards, just in case they haven’t been played because they’ve been lost (or in one friend’s case pooped on by their newborn)
• Don’t focus solely on karma points, but also add the ability to track participation in the game by the percentage of friends who have also played the game forward. Basically, reward people for bringing engaged players into the game.

I was a bit bummed that I hadn’t played in a while, but the twitter search feature for Akoha reminded me of how awesome the game is. Excitement feeds excitement and I invited some friends out for drinks next week. Mark that down folks – Mission 17 is in the works!