What's Next?

I thought I’d take the opportunity to share some of the plans for the near future of PurposeGames.com

Player Rating System
We’re still missing a rating system - basically a way to answer "how good am I at [subject]" based on my playing records - as it is right now. I’ve gotten some good suggestions on what you’d like to see in this area but more is welcome of course.
Player Ratings are missing since the last major update of PurposeGames, so I long for this to come into place again.

Improved Scoreboard
There’s a lot of room for improvement in the personal scoreboard area. Private Games show/no show, ATH’s display, games per category, the position in relation to others, and possibility to sort freely.
I know some of you have been asking for the possibility to compare and bring up player vs. player. I’m looking into this but I cannot say whether or not this one will make it at the same time as everything else.

A couple of Widgets
A widget is a small piece of code to place for instance on your own site, that displays stats from this site related to you. You have probably seen and/or used this from other sites you visit. It’ll be possible to display these in other places e.g. on your site, your google panel, your facebook profile and what not.

The following widgets are in the plans:
- Game of the day (you can already see a preview/beta of this one on http://www.davidincyberspace.com at the top right of the main page)

- "My Rating"-widget. The idea for this one is that if you’re really good at Geography or Sports or whatever and want to show it off to others, a rating system widget will show your current rating updated live and displayed where you want to see it

- "My Game"-widget. Basically the same as the game of the day widget only this one allows you to plug your own game into it. Not to be confused with "embedding"-possibilites i.e. it's not an enabler to place the games elsewhere, but rather a link. You’ll be able to show off your own games, randomly, or a specific game of your choosing and place it on a site where you want it to be displayed.

I have no ETA for these improvements but now at least you know what’s in store for the – hopefully – near future.

I'd like to add a feature if it is possible and that is a "Go to the next question" feature. It is really a "bummer" WHEN THE FIRST ONE OFF THE GAME LIST IS A STUMPER and you know you have 3 wrong right up front. It would be nice if you could delay them and think on those at the end when they return to haunt you! In that way it would avoid a back out from the game for someone who may think it is too hard at the beginning or may help someone who is trying to get a better time, or is using the game to learn by doing.

Wow i like RonaldDerGrosse and Doffa's idea. I really like the points idea, in that it would get a general idea of the work each player has done. Examples are as follows:

Playing a game=5
Recieving a nod=150
Creating a game=500
Someone plays a game you created=10
Game you created gets 5 stars=100
Getting a number one score on a game=100
Scoring the ATH=150
Getting in the top 10 in a game=50

Anything i left out?
Also, If a player commits a minor offense points could be deducted.

Oh yeah, and I really want an easier way to browse individual players games. Like it was possible to do earlier, to sort them by category, played etc.