Announcement: WeGame -The Game
Hey WeGamers,
This week, we bring you another major feature. Internally, we have been calling it World of WeGame :)
We’ve constantly been brainstorming on ways to make the WeGame experience more engaging. As a gaming site, we thought the best way to appeal to our audience is to make the experience a game in itself!
You will notice you have a new userbar at the bottom of the site that has some of the old features, but also includes a brand new experience bar. As you do various things around the site like upload videos, comment on screenshots, etc.. you will earn experience and currency. When you do an action that earns you something, a message will appear in the message area of the userbar, like so:
Instead of me blabbering on and on, here are all the new things World of WeGame brings to the site:
Earn Experience & Currency via Actions
Start exploring the site and do things like upload, comment, and like! You will discover that certain actions will give you XP and WeGame currency!
Unlock Achievements
We’ve put quite a few achievements that you can unlock in the system. It’s up to you to start exploring and unlock them! If you want a hint, start uploading a lot or visit the site every day :). You will notified that you unlocked an achievement in the message area or Notifications menu. For a list of achievements, please see this forum post.
Level Up!
When you earn enough experience, you will automatically level up. You can earn experience by doing Actions or unlocking Achievements.You will notified that you leveled up in the message area or Notifications menu.
We hope you enjoy the new WeGame experience. There has been so much that has been added this release, so we can’t list them all out here. It’s up to you to go out and discover everything! We will be adding a lot of stuff to this system in the coming days, so please send us feedback with what you want to see. Here are some notes to answer some common questions:
- If you are a current registered user and have lots of videos, screenshots, likes, comments, wall posts, you may have already unlocked a lot of achievements. To have these achievements kick in, do one of each action you can think of. Example: view each of your videos/screenshots, like a random video, comment on a random video, friend somebody, etc.. If you suddenly earn many levels, achievements, this is expected.
- As of right now, levels do not give you special abilities. This will change in the future.
- As of right now, you cannot use currency to purchase anything. This will change in the future.
- In the near future, your profile will show which achievements you have unlocked and which ones you still need to.
- Your current level and currency can be viewed by clicking your username in the bottom userbar. This will show your User menu with all kinds of goodies.
- Other users’ levels are not displayed around the site yet, this will change VERY soon.
This feature is brand new, so if you see any bugs or if you have any suggestions, please contact us:
- Bug reports: help@wegame.com
- Feedback, comments, suggestions: feedback@wegame.com
Heh, I think I suggested something like this way, way back. Like when I first joined the site.
theineffablebob
May 20, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Is there an option to turn it off? I find it pretty annoying. If I wanted to be on Facebook, I’d be on Facebook.
Aran
May 20, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Time for a siesta from wegame. It has been a good run.
jfuggy
May 20, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Reminds me of Newgrounds. Exp is quite fun over there, hope it works out as well here too.
Mystfit
May 20, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Well, I’m feeling motivated.
Motived to make snarky comments on Gorndt’s posts, but motivated none-the-less.
jjg
May 20, 2009 at 11:15 pm
nice
BloodTerror
May 21, 2009 at 1:28 am
Great impletation!
Origano
May 21, 2009 at 2:01 am
Nice spelling. (Joking) It’s ‘Implementation’.
helpmetechshow
June 4, 2009 at 1:27 am
Пора переименовать блог, присвоив название связанное с доменами :) может хватит про них?
Marinkina
May 21, 2009 at 6:47 am
Awesome guys :) Great work!
Martijn Hoekstra
May 21, 2009 at 7:32 am
This is really good and cool :)
Alexc26
May 21, 2009 at 7:56 am
That’s neat, I remember one of my other sites did this.
Dick
May 21, 2009 at 9:06 am
Awesome idea :) Hope it makes the user experience more engaging and fun, sounds like it would.
Nathan Lands
May 21, 2009 at 1:03 pm
This is awesome wegame, this is easily as awesome as the daily contests of before.
Levi Broadnax - Megazord
May 21, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Personally I think its neat :P i’m interested to see what money does and the benefits of our xp.
I like how the bottom bar has changed too
Drenik74
May 21, 2009 at 1:27 pm
i really like that i started about an hour ago and posted alot of video’s already but i dont know what u can do whit gold
BTHxANGEL
May 22, 2009 at 5:31 am
Heyy this is fantastic, such a awesome way to keep people active here 8D Can’t wait for the other functions with currency and such in the future.
Konnestra
May 22, 2009 at 10:49 am
I like this new idea =)
TuomasTormanen
May 23, 2009 at 4:10 am
what stuff do you spend your gold on?
glenee242
May 23, 2009 at 10:13 am
Really Cool. :D
Cant wait to try it out.
Den_Usynlige
May 23, 2009 at 11:25 am
this sounds pretty sweet..
dumjenius
May 25, 2009 at 8:42 am
Yeah, what do you use the gold for…?
Laxsith
May 26, 2009 at 6:18 am
sounds like a kewl idea – just discovered i’m on level 4 already
Andrew C
May 26, 2009 at 9:49 am
Yeah its almost identical to Newgrounds – it works brilliantly there so why not here.
Just make sure you don’t make it too mandatory to fit in to the community, cos’ i think a lot of the enjoyment of this site comes purely from viewing loads of random stuff, not writing essays about it for achievements and making collabs’
I could be wrong…
Nice implement :D
Kromus
May 26, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I hope Gold will allow you to buy free games :P
MAspiderface
May 26, 2009 at 7:37 pm
i like it! just hope it doesn’t cause people to just post stupid videos and post stupid comments to get more “xp” but besides that seems like a pretty tight system!
Braveheart
May 26, 2009 at 10:09 pm
its cool :D
dextros
May 27, 2009 at 12:31 am
Great, makes me think of Myndflame. ;P “World of WeGame?” Who at WeGame suggested that name? x3 Haha I bet someone’ll ask “u no theirs a game cald world of warcraft that sounds like that lol”
Mivrina
May 27, 2009 at 5:59 am
@Braveheart
It’s nice to have a larger community, even at the cost of a few stupid comments. I do think there should be a rule against (and i haven’t seen this yet) about 1 word posts.
Levi Broadnax - Megazord
May 27, 2009 at 1:50 pm
You have reached level 10″ you have unlocked the mp40….wha…..”
jonny
May 28, 2009 at 4:31 am
Fantastic, simply fantastic. I think I’m going to enjoy this.
Fredthefighter
May 28, 2009 at 11:46 am
“Announcement: WeGame -The Game”
Great. I just lost the game.
Medic_Pills
May 31, 2009 at 10:54 am
It makes WeGame run much slower.
Bagno
June 1, 2009 at 12:36 am
yeah, uhm what the gold for
linkinloggins
June 1, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Facebook copy? Be original
Machinimator
June 2, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Well, I’d prefer a better structure/layout of the Videos and Screenshots sections,
selectable Categories I want to see and those I don’t want to see,
and not those big, massive featured or most viewed areas that don’t interest me or will stay there even after I watched them.
This could become something good and interesting, but I fear you’re overdoing it…
“special abilities” and “buy things”??? :/
I hope it’ll turn out good, and not bad as the layout changes in my opinion.
Kissaki
June 4, 2009 at 5:44 am
Hey, how do I view my achievements?
TomatoSoup
June 10, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Very nice idea. I like it :) Makes the sight much more engaging and fun!
GreasyLazor
June 10, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I think some cool things are comming. I think some neat rewards would be like cool openers for ppls videos and new borders for videos and idk things like that….. or yeah.
MissTails
June 11, 2009 at 2:38 am
what’s the point of the gold feature in world of wgame?
Edward
June 16, 2009 at 2:05 pm
what’s with the wegame currency?
Edward
June 16, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Edward, if you actually read their post you would see that its to be announced.
“As of right now, you cannot use currency to purchase anything. This will change in the future.”
Levi Broadnax
June 16, 2009 at 3:29 pm