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The concept of "achievements" is a must-have in every video game. People like challenges. They love this little symbol of a big victory: the achievement unlocked.
What if we extend this concept in a game for your real life?
Story:
When I was a freshman, I wanted to be the best. My friends did too. We were always in a competition to get the best grades. We had an excel spreadsheet with our projects grades and we liked to add these points all together to see who was the best.
When one of my friend got a girlfriend for the first time, we decided that is was worth some points and added it in the table. After that, this document became bigger and bigger, listing all our freshmen's achievements we were so proud ouf.
We were so excited about this game that we decided to make a website for it so it would be easier to use it and see our points. And so much fun!
We're still friends today, and together, we decided to share this awesome game with the whole world, by creating our own company around it, and create "Life", the game in which YOU are the hero.
Of course, we have a business plan for that. First, we're going to use our huge social network to create a community around it. We will take advantage of the power of the social networks inside and outside our game. Then we're going to make the buzz by publishing an entertaining promotional short movie that everybody will hear about. This should give us a pretty decent amount of users.
You're probably going to ask: But how do you make money with that? Are you going to ask your users to pay?
Of course, not!
We have a "business-to-business" approach. We will offer other companies the opportunity to put their very own achievements in our game.
Let's say you are Disneyland. If you decide to become our partner, you could add an achievement for each attraction, as well as some achievements for buying special limited edition products. The day after these achievements are published, you'll know that a lot of people are going to wait in line just to collect those achievements!
And this works for any kind of business and any size. We can provide packages of achievements for eating a 5 layers gigantic burger-mac-and-cheese-pizza by yourself, or flying all the way to Europe to get a shot of yourself in front of the Eiffel Tower. The possibilities are endless!
To make this project come true, my team of developers and I are going to need some initial funding:
- to make our promotional short-movie
- to work together in an office
- to print and create some promotional items
- to buy advertisement
- to pay for our servers
Help us today. With the small amount of $100 000 dollars, we can make a huge difference. And in exchange, you will get 10% of our company.
And then, one day, together, we will open Life, the game, and proudly read the message: Created a successful business.
Achievement. Unlocked.
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