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In our youth community AT.LANT.IS we want to encourage users to participate as much as possible.

From a game design perspective, users help to “rebuild” Atlantis by earning the ingame currency ORIs in the minigames. As soon as enough ORIs are available, a new feature in the world is unlocked for everyone – a new room, new avatar items, or a new game.

Besides that, more and more users are sending in their stories and drawings to be included in the library or the museum, respectively.

I hope we can gain more momentum with that user generated content – as always, some users seem to get into it more than others, some of them even use other platforms like YouTube:

startups.yeebase.com features my interview on their landing page today.

Finally, the project I have been working on has been announced:

Atlantis, the underwater-themed kids community , opens it’s gates for users interested in participating in the closed beta tests (for free, of course):

Here are some screenshots, to give you some impression of what’s in store:

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