Achievements module - need conceptual assistance

I've already coded something like this, but never got around to releasing it.
What's your email? I'll send it to you (mine's morbus@disobey.com).

From the README.txt:

The Achievements module is intended to emulate Xbox 360 achievements, a
system whereby gamers are awarded points for the completion of game-specific
challenges. For a Drupal site, this could mean commenting a certain number of
times, starting a forum topic, visiting the site every day of the week, or
any number of other possibilities.

There are a few conceptual differences between Achievements and User Points:

 * Unlike the points of User Points, a user never loses his achievement
   points for, say, an e-commerce purchase or other redeemable item.

 * Unlike the points of User Points, achievement points are based on
   milestones, not necessarily activity. Whereas, in User Points, a user
   may get 5 points every time he posts a node, a matching achievement
   would instead reward 100 points for posting 10 nodes (or 50, etc.)

 * Since achievements are "milestones", each one has its own leaderboard
   that lists when a user has met (or "unlocked") the goal, and their
   matching rank. A site-wide leaderboard ranks users by points they've
   achieved, but also by timestamp -- if two users share the same point
   total, the person who got there first gets the higher rank.

 * Achievements can be hidden so that a user doesn't know how to unlock
   it until he stumbles upon the discovery himself (either by meeting the
   milestone, asking another user, etc.).

 * Unlike User Points, the only achievement data stored in the database
   is the achievement's internal ID and when the user unlocked it. This
   allows you to change the achievement details (spelling, name, etc.)
   without having to issue database updates.

 * Achievements are defined via an API hook, like Drupal's menus and forms,
   and can be enabled or disabled by an admin. This allows modules to ship
   with dozens of achievements, but gives the admin the ability to shut off
   specific milestones that may not apply to his user base.

 * Achievements are not retroactively applied - you either get them after
   the Achievements module has been enabled, or you don't get them at all.
   Likewise, achievements can not be deleted (but that may change).

 * Fundamentally, a user can never go down in score. If you need to "shame"
   your users, you can create 0 point achievements like "Had 5 comments
   deleted", "Was blocked", etc. The Achievements module does not ship
   with any of these shame achievements.

The achievements are done as PHP actions... here's an example of a definition:

function achievements_comment_achievements_info() {
  return array(
    'comment-count-1' => array(
      'title'       => t('Posted your first comment'),
      'description' => t('You have successfully delurked. Welcome!'),
      'points'      => 5,
    ),
  );
}

And, the actioning code (which you'd run in a hook_comment sorta thing):

function achievements_comment_count($uid) {
  $counts = array(1, 5, 25, 100);

  foreach ($counts as $count) {
    // if even just one of our achievements is enabled, we need to count
    // comments. it'd be a bit lame, but someone could disable comment-1
    // but still want the rest of the comments (10, 100, 250, etc.).
    if (achievements_enabled('comment-count-' . $count)) {
      $counting_enabled = TRUE;
    }
  }

  if ($counting_enabled) {
    $current_count = achievements_storage_get('comment_count', $uid) + 1;
    achievements_storage_set('comment_count', $uid, $current_count);

    if (in_array($current_count, $counts)) {
      achievements_unlocked('comment-count-' . $current_count);
    }
  }
}

The code also supports "hidden" achievements (wherein the user can't see what it is until he unlocks it), as well as leaderboards (so you can track who got the achievement first and most recently). It doesn't currently support icons, but that could easily be added in (I just didn't do it because I don't have any graphical capabilities).

By any chance, could you send me a copy as well as I was actually just sitting down to start writing my own?
ColdSun[at]unitedadmins[.]com
Thanks =)

Hi Guys,

Does anyone have any updates on possible module development for this achievements module?

I searched the module directory and come across this: http://drupal.org/project/achievements but there has been no further updates on a release for that module.

I stumbled across this thread and it looks like you guys have put together some code.

I am not a developer so cannot use the information posted here to build my own achievement module :( but I really need an achievement module to use on my site. It's a really nice feature that will add a lot of value in terms of encouraging user/community activity when using the site.

It would be great if you guys could get together and build this as a module for other users to download for use on their own Drupal sites.

Another nice feature to add when building this module would be to link it in with the http://drupal.org/project/userpoints module, so that when a user unlocks an achievement they will also be awarded a number of 'User Points'.

Can someone please please please develop and release this plug in for the community.

Cheers,

John

This sounds exactly like something I need for my website. I would like a copy of this module (send to dirtysab@gmail.com) and be a part of the development. I want to add way more behind the scene stuff for getting achievements.

wastrilith [at] hotmail [dot] com

Achievements are now available for Drupal 7: http://drupal.org/project/achievements