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Damn boosters will ruin this. Just like they do on XBL. To combat the boosters they will make the achievements harder to obtain. And then no one will enjoy them. | |
Firstly I'd like to say how horrid that man's face and voice are. Secondly I'd like to say that this is never going to work. Ever. EDIT: Okay, wait. It might work, but it's stupid. What's the point of it? Seriously. | |
Are there any evil achievements like rob a bank? | |
Life has achievements now? Damn. I have to pick up this game. | |
Why do we need an iPhone app for this?
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Will there be stuff like "Lose Virginity"? Because that would be very funny. Imagine in the middle of organism you update your Iphone with the achievment | |
How I now pray for the end of days, so that this twisted digital existence will be shown up as the meaninglessness mockery that it is. | |
Great, now LIFE has achievements??? How on earth am I going to kill 53,594 zombies in real life??? | |
One day at a time, my friend. One day at a time. | |
One zombie at a time. One Zombie at a time. | |
I like the concept of it but I would never do it. It sounds like too much work. | |
If you search YouTube, you can see a video where someone did this by rubber-banding a shotgun to a steel door and setting a dish of fresh brains on the floor. At least I know the "Nothing Special" achievement should be pretty easy to get. :rolleyes: I just wish there were a way to turn down the difficulty setting. | |
I don't really get how this works? Sounds awesome though :P Achievement Unlocked: You failed to understand how this works. BOOYAH!!! | |
is it me or do the achievement icons look alot...valveish | |
I've got an achievement for this thread | |
It would be rather absurd to do that in the middle of an organism. Imagine if that organism was a bear. You wouldn't want to be in the middle of a bear. That's where the stomach is. | |
What the f...? | |
No. They really do.. | |
Are people that down/sad that they need an app to go "WELL DONE YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING THAT MANY OTHERS HAVE DONE YOU USELESS AND MEANINGLESS PILE OF BONES AND ORGANS!!" Although the pictures do like pretty cool :D | |
Show Me the Money! Show Me the Money!-50g | |
He misspelled the word "orgasm" as "organism" | |
How about an Achievement when you die? That... That would be ironic... | |
You Shook Me All Night Long!-100g | |
Undertaken or All these Points and All of them To Waste- 100,000g | |
like the GBoWR record of "most civilians killed in a single terroristic act", and yes, this was real, underneath the article they had like on EVERY article "attempt to break this record", needless t osay it was taken down soon afterwords. but yea, I can see how "omg, just too a poop! BOOYAH!" would be annoying, do we REALLY need meta-gaming in real life? | |
"a cross between a daily planner with a fusion of social networking and microblogging via Facebook and Twitter" Is that a cross between: Or maybe its a cross between: | |
its fucking Twitter /thread | |
The achievements are pretty crap, its just making so many posts to your facebook/twitter tagged with a particular topic, like you get an achivment for making 3/5/10 fitness related posts in a day .Still my guy look cute and it was free so I'm happy. | |
Great now we are going to be seeing people's resumes in the form of booyah posts... Also just imagine the ridiculous achievements people consider for real life. This is more of a downer news for me because most people I know don't get the opportunity to really achieve anything in life. | |
This is going to be as dull as dishwater. | |
I don't know why people are getting annoyed with this. This is a social networking thing. It's not a game. It's just an interesting idea to add to twitter and facebook. | |
All I can say is this: http://www.friendsoffoamy.com/videos/achievements-episode-178 It was thought of here first people! | |
I can think of a much better way to do this with an iPhone app. Find some way to hook a heart-rate monitor, pedometer, or even grip-strength tester to it through whatever ports the iPhone uses, then dish out achievements for actual exercise. | |
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Booyah Brings Achievements to Real Life
The mysterious iPhone app announced by ex-Blizzard spinoff Booyah! back in April has been unveiled - Booyah Society, a program that lets you earn Achievements in real life.
When we first reported on the story this April, all we knew about Silicon Valley startup Booyah was that it was made of former Blizzard employees, and all we know about their mysterious project was that it was a "playful life companion" for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Well, here it is: Booyah Society, "The first social game based on your real-life Achievements." At a first glance, it looks like a cross between a daily planner with a fusion of social networking and microblogging via Facebook and Twitter, respectively. And of course, there are the Achievements.
In Booyah Society, you create a small 3D avatar to interact with, and then... well, you start earning Achievements. Maybe it's stuff you already do - going to the gym - or maybe it's something that you'll start to do for the sake of earning an Achievement, like recycling your cans every week. Either way, the program will be able to post your updates to Twitter and Facebook if you'd prefer, and will be designed to let you track the Achievements that your friends are earning, too.
It's an interesting idea, and with 108 current Achievements in the system - and potentially infinitely more to come - I can see it being quite the draw. But... from what I see, this works just on the honor system. What's to stop you from claiming you've Achieved everything, and just skipping the whole thing?
Other than the shame and scorn of your peers, of course.
(Via GamerLimit)
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