I’d like to just throw a few suggestions for the developers to make this app more interesting, I used to “play” memrise alot when I was learning french, and to be honest with you I thought that Ziggy was not the best in terms of showing the player’s progression but it was on the right direction imo. I appreciated him and I felt motivated to get to higher levels and watch him transform into a robot or whatever.
This comes from a guy who’s really interested in mmorpgs, I used to play wow alot, and what kept me going was this sense of progression and achievement system, and competition with others, and I always think that if memrise incorporated something like that I would be back to playing it for sure. It would almost certainly motivate me to start another language course if I had a character that I picked grow and reach high and challenging levels by practicing the language. I always come back to memrise to see if they implemented something interesting like that but all I see is a big number next to my profile pic. I always picture how awesome would it be to be one of the few to unlock a certain achievement or a skin for the character for example. Sorry for rambling so much, but I think you could see my point, duolingo’s achievement system looks really nice but its so damn easy and so there are so few of them that it defeats the pourpose, but it’s already more than what you guys do here.
So here’s a few suggestions
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Keep the high challenging levels requiring alot of exp like it is, it’s awesome because it’s so hard. Also keep the level of difficulty for everything, like I said, I dont even see the point of completinh duolingos achievements because its just too easy and everybody can have it.
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Give us a few options of models for our character, but not something childish, 2d and amateur like ziggy, give us something oldschool, really game-ish, animated, with variations, skins, wearing items you can collect by completing daily quests, practices and achievements, what brings me to my next point:
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daily quests and achievements. events for special dates with limited prizes like a halloween costume or even a portrait like what heroes of the storm do. that would keep me going back to the game because NOW there’s a reason for not breaking my streak for example, cause if I get a 30 day streak I get that sweet banner or that unique hat for my character or that portrait.
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Little collectable pets for your character would be interesting.
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Test your knowledge in a pvp like challenge against other players
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Let the players communicate for gods sake! I can’t even send a message to someone there, or comment or anything, this would open up a community feel for the app and also would be useful to just talk to others and practice the language.
I have alot more to suggest but Im just gotta leave you with that. what do you guys think?