Practical Game Design

Event rewards

Medals, trophies, items, perks, characters, costumes, and vanity content—event prizes depend entirely on what you have at your disposal. With rewards, as with events themselves, there is no silver bullet or a one-size-fits-all solution. There are, however, a few tips you can follow!

Set the barAlways start cheap and increase the quality of the rewards as necessary. Beginning with great rewards in the hope of increasing event participation is a terrible mistake that locks you into a dangerous, ever-inflating pattern.

With rewards, the only way players are happy to accept is up. Bringing the quality of rewards down is a very long and painful process. Doing so incorrectly will cause massive amounts of dissatisfaction and long-term ...