Nitro Game Mechanics

The Nitro gamification platform delivers the industry's most comprehensive set of game mechanics, turning your site into a user engagement platform. These include:


	Actions Your users are talking to you through their Actions on your website. You need to listen and respond in real time with incentives that encourage them to repeat valuable behavior like commenting, sharing, rating, reviewing, subscribing and purchasing.
	Challenges/Badges Challenges tap into our basic human need to have goals and to achieve them. You can use Nitro to configure Challenges based on the Actions that you're tracking, and reward your users for reaching key milestones.
	Points People love earning points - they are incredible motivators. Use points as status indicators, let your users spend them to unlock access to content, and enable them to spend points on virtual goods and gifting. You can also create Premium Points that users can purchase, and sell virtual goods for real money, giving you a new incremental revenue stream.
	Levels Levels are an indicator of hitting a milestone or a stage of accomplishment and your users should be rewarded for these achievements. With Nitro, you can set point thresholds, so that users can automatically level-up based on their participation. Use levels to indicate status and also to control access to content on the site.
	Leaderboards Every game ever made has a high-score table. They're aspirational and give your users a fun way to track how they’re doing against everyone else in their community. Use Nitro to create leaderboards on any Action that you're tracking, so you can use competition to drive valuable behavior.
	Virtual Goods, Virtual Rooms, Avatars People value the things they create themselves – it expresses their individuality. Virtual Goods give your users a place to spend their points, a reason to want to earn, a way to buy each other gifts, and a way to express themselves. Nitro comes with an Avatar System and a Virtual Room System. You can also turn on virtual goods as a revenue center by selling your users virtual goods for real dollars.
	Groups People love identifying with something bigger than them - use Nitro's Group functionality to enable your users to join groups to collaborate and compete.
	Competitions Competitions enable your users to challenge each other to get the highest score. Competitions are great for encouraging collaboration, sharing and repeat visits.
	Notifications When implementing an incentive and reward system, real time feedback is critical in order to reinforce your desired behaviors with users. Use the Nitro Notification module to message your users in real-time, in the browser and in response to their actions on your site.
	Social Networks Nitro’s SocialLink connects your site with powerful social networks like Facebook and Twitter, helping drive content consumption and customer acquisition. The Connector widget enables you to reward your users for posting certain messages, following or liking accounts on Twitter and Facebook, and sharing valuable links. It also enables your users to opt-in to automatically broadcast their achievements to Facebook and Twitter - turning your users into your viral marketing team.
	Trivia Enable your users to earn points while demonstrating their knowledge. Nitro's Trivia Module enables you to quickly create new, multiple-choice trivia games on any topic and embed them in your site.
	Poker Your users can earn and burn points (depending on how good they are!) against each other in a real-time, multi-player Poker game. The house takes a cut of every hand, providing a constant removal of currency from the economy.
	Comments Want to enable your users to leave comments for each other? Nitro can power a comment wall so that your users can share their thoughts.
	Friends Sometimes you just want to compete or collaborate with only your friends, rather than the entire site. Nitro can track friend relationships, including managing invites and acceptances, and then uses this information to filter leaderboards, newsfeeds, etc.
	News Feeds Promote and cross-promote all the content and activity on your website using the Nitro News Feed. The News Feed is a great way to indicate activity and encourage exploration and social connections.
	Toolbar The Nitro Toolbar is the fastest way to integrate Nitro into your site. Display all user-facing information from a toolbar that appears on every page of your site, including their point balance, level, avatar, trophies, and more. The Toolbar can be installed in minutes, and can be customized with your own content.