Self-Discovery Game: 72 Possible Benefits
Capabilities and opportunities to test
This list distinguishes useful possibilities from measured outcomes. Working tools can support these activities, but user adoption, earnings and cognitive outcomes need evidence.
- Combine art, writing, music and video in one POP.
- Support creativity without advanced artistic skills.
- Allow text-only contributions.
- Keep new POPs private until an author chooses to publish.
- Give each creation a shareable destination.
- Let authors revise their work.
- Preserve earlier POP versions for reference.
- Provide reusable templates with author permission.
- Support improvements subject to author approval.
- Keep credit close to the work.
- Organize creations into personal galleries.
- Organize shared work into community galleries.
- Nest galleries to represent larger projects.
- Combine galleries and POPs in albums.
- Rearrange POPs to suit an author's priorities.
- Rearrange gallery cards to suit an owner's priorities.
- Adjust card spacing for connected visual arrangements.
- Offer alternative frames for presenting work.
- Store uploaded files in My Files.
- Attach files to selected text.
- Insert files into written contributions.
- Provide comments for discussion.
- Collect changeable star ratings.
- Collect Likes as a simple participation option.
- Use polls to compare preferences.
- Use surveys to gather more structured feedback.
- Use calibration activities to examine differences in judgment.
- Offer informal Game of Ideas conversations.
- Offer formal game formats.
- Record game participants and points.
- Make interviews a playable discussion format.
- Provide ranks as visible milestones.
- Support promotion applications and jury review.
- Recognize useful contributions with Good/Helping points.
- Recognize contributions through rewards when a provider offers them.
- Display free learning and creative resources.
- Help people discover reusable materials.
- Record resource use and credit across POPs.
- Give original resource creators visibility into reuse.
- Provide tutorials within the platform.
- Help visitors navigate with the Guide.
- Provide a Site Map.
- Collect platform improvement suggestions.
- Showcase ideas in the 1st Idea Bank.
- Let players rate project potential.
- Let interested players join project teams.
- Record collaborative development updates.
- Provide a Citizen Science Fair for observations and methods.
- Provide a place for Senior/Capstone Projects.
- Provide a School of Life for practical knowledge.
- Let adults 50+ share experience with families and younger participants.
- Offer a place to document family creativity.
- Let players record Life Roads and milestones.
- Connect separate activities through Central Storylines.
- Provide sponsor registration and discovery.
- Separate sponsor categories and size tiers.
- Provide affiliate and nonprofit support destinations.
- Let creators display sponsor and good-cause links.
- Offer routes to shops and other material support opportunities.
- Offer tickets and tips where a host configures support.
- Keep a contest entry and its demonstrations together.
- Make participant work available for continued discussion after a contest.
- Help organizers reuse common presentation structures.
- Help applicants explain their work using the same platform they demonstrate.
- Let sponsors support projects while receiving clearly identified visibility.
- Support a proposed coordination of marketing and charitable activity.
- Provide a private vault for deposited source files.
- Provide signed certificates and exact-file comparison.
- Let owners download originals and certificates for independent safekeeping.
- Allow OI and AI contributions to complement one another with clear attribution.
- Use participant feedback to guide improvements with appropriate consent.
- Reduce some repeated work by connecting existing tools and reusable examples.