Leaderboard

What is Leaderboard

Leaderboard helps players to understand their ranking as compare to all players available on the games. It gives a player motivation to play a game more and score high on Leaderboard.

“Leaderboards rank players according to their relative success, measuring them against a certain success criterion. As such, leaderboards can help determine who performs best in a certain activity and are thus competitive indicators of progress that relate the player's own performance to the performance of others.” ~ Wikipedia

Objective

Allow people to compete

Allow social comparisons & track the progress

Allow players to set a Goal and achieve

KPIs

Improve LTV of a user

Improve user engagement on the game

Improve user retention on the game

Improve user growth

Design Objective

Give a sense of progress to a player

Give badges and milestone to a player

It should reflect your competence

Gamification Technique Used

Stepping stone (Giving a goal to achieve e.g. Top 10 rank in daily leaderboard)

Reward Loop (Reward through leaderboard e.g. If a person play multiple times, he would score high on leaderboard)

Flow (Challenge meets with the skills)

Overview of the feature

Only Facebook logins users are allowed in Leaderboard (V1).

Type of Leaderboard: We will be having two type of leaderboard: Daily and Weekly. Daily leaderboard will be reset in every 24 hours and weekly leaderboard will be reset every week. In V2, we will also add a lifetime leaderboard. Lifetime leaderboard will have no expire date.

Leaderboard UI:

Top 3 players will be in different color.

Top 10 players will be shown in daily/weekly leaderboard. Also, player’s current ranking will also there on the leaderboard.

Timer will be shown to create an urgency for users

Milestone/Rewards: No rewards in V1

Wireframe

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Leaderboard will update after each game

Daily leaderboard will be reset in every 24 hours

Weekly leaderboard will be reset in every 7 days

Countdown timer will be shown

For name of the user,

Ask name using pop-up

Facebook login

Reference

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How to motivate with leaderboard⁠

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Implement with Google Play Games⁠

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