Adding Social Components to Single Player experience

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Hi Everyone,

I’m in the midst of working on an IOS-based adventure / RPG that is single-player in nature. I’ve been thinking of ways to add elements to make it more social, without necessarily adding a multi-player or co-op component.

Here are a list of ideas so far:

-friends lists.
-embedded chat.
-achievements.
-leaderboards.
-shareable game stats.
-shareable items.
-Twitter / Facebook / YouTube -enabled sharing.
-ability to leave messages for other players in their game experience.
-having other gamer’s characters show up in your world, like Thatgamecompany’s “Journey” plans to do.

Can you think of other ideas to add to this list?

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You’ve covered the majority of social aspects a single player game can have. Only other thing i can think of off the top of my head would be to hold competitions with news of the competitions loading through the app. That would be something you’d have to maintain but it could certainly help to build a community behind the game and the company.