Have you ever played a game where you need to find a key before you can open a locked door? Or collect a certain number of coins before you can buy something from a store?
These types of features – delayed consequences and outcomes – are advanced forms of interactivity that learning teams are using to maximise engagement with their content, creating gamified learning experiences that users actually enjoy and remember.
What are achievements?
When a user makes a choice or completes an action, you can reward or punish them with an achievement – like finding a key to a locked door.
Achievements can be stored in an inventory, which you can choose to show to the user or keep hidden. They can also be cumulative, such as collecting multiple coins throughout an experience.
What are conditions?
Conditions are rules that determine what happens in your content based on a user’s achievements.
For example, a learner might only be able to access a locked door if they’ve already found the key. Or they may need a certain number of coins in their inventory before they can buy a potion from a store.
Conditional defaults determine which scene a user will go to immediately after an interaction, whereas conditions can lead to more delayed consequences and outcomes.
Both conditions and conditional defaults use a user’s achievements or inventory to determine which scenes or paths they can access.
This means decisions made early in an experience can shape what happens later, with some choices carrying more weight than others.
Why use achievements and conditions?
Achievements and conditions make interactive content more engaging by turning passive viewers into active participants whose choices shape their experience. They enable more personalised and effective learning journeys, allowing you to reward key behaviours, discourage poor decisions, and track performance to improve outcomes.
By combining achievements, conditions, and inventory, you can create rich, dynamic experiences that are engaging, memorable, and impactful. That’s how you move from content that people watch to content they experience.
See them in action
Check out this gamified interactive video made with Near-Life and VYOND to see achievements and conditions in action.
Ready to add achievements, conditions, and inventory to your own interactive content?
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