A relative leaderboard only shows a number of people above you and below you based on your ranking. So your position on the leaderboard is effectively the guide point and base of which other results you see.
This technique is often used to roll over prizes/rewards, it tends to build up slowly and after a few weeks the amount is significant enough to attract more participants. Some people will join because of the chance to win and others for the challenge, the higher the stakes the higher the attraction rate. The difficulty …
A version of a relative leaderboard that shows only users from a user’s connected social network such as Facebook.
To level the playing field or to give players more hope of achieving a next level, game designers often build in time-bound challenges, which can earn you extra points or very specific rewards. This past weekend Candy Crush set a challenge to crush as many green candies as possible, in return it earned power up …
is an emergent economy existing in a virtual persistent world, usually exchanging virtual goods in the context of an Internet game. People enter these virtual economies for recreation and entertainment rather than necessity, which means that virtual economies lack the aspects of a real economy that are not considered to be “fun” (for instance, avatars …
When playing games with new players, the phrase beginner’s luck is often coined when they do well unexpectedly against more experienced players. In board games and sports this is often indeed a case of luck or unexpected discovery of a skilled person, however in computer and video games this can be a programmed element to …
An absolute leaderboard only shows the top scores of users in a system.