An onboarding game aims for successful integration of new employees into a company. These types of games do not begin or end on specific days and remain open for any player invited by the game administrator to the game.


Onboarding game creation follows this process:

  • Game creation

  • Welcome page setup

  • Invitation message creation

  • Notification scheduling

  • Automatic challenge scheduling


Game creation


You can use the same procedure to add a new game to your environment when creating an onboarding game. On the next screen, select “Onboarding” as your type of game after you enter a name.


The most important settings within parameters are the following:

  • No start or end date

  • Disable challenges between players

  • Disable trainings



Welcome page configuration


Onboarding games let you design a welcome page that players will see when they access the game for the first time. The game does not actually start until the player clicks Accept on this screen. This means: 1) Player will select the game from the catalog with available games, 2) Welcome message will display and player agrees to play by clicking “Start”, 3) Game screen will then display and the player can start playing.



You can find the welcome message in the “Options based on the language” section within basic game setup. Design this message just like other game notifications (using the HTML visual editor). You can also embed a video so that players understand more about the game content and objectives in a much more visual way.


 


Invitation to play a game


You can use a message to invite new players to your game. While essential for onboarding games, you can use this invitation for any type of game. The “Options based on the language” section of the basic game setup contains the invitation message. You can design it just like other game notifications (using the HTML visual editor).




If you want to invite new players to the game, access Game configuration, Users tab and choose the “Invite” option next to the specific user you want to invite to the game. If you have not created the user in the platform or have not assigned them to your game, you should carry out the regular procedure for creating users and assigning them to the game.


To learn more about how to invite new users: read more.



Notification scheduling


Scheduling notifications for an onboarding game follows the exact same process as other games. However, you can set a specific schedule for each player right after they start playing the game.


The system now offers two different date configuration options:

  • Specific date: follows the current process by choosing specific dates and times to send the notifications.
  • After joining the game: set how many days should pass after the player enters the game to send the notification. This number could also be 0. Alternatively, you can set a specific time of the day after N days pass when to send the notification.



To learn more about how to set up notifications: read more.



Automatic challenge scheduling


Scheduling automatic challenges for an onboarding game follows the exact same process as other games. However, you can set a specific schedule for each player right after they start playing the game.


The system now offers two different date configuration options:

  • Specific date: follows the current process by choosing specific dates and times to send the notifications.
  • After joining the game: set how many days should pass after the player enters the game to send the challenges. This number could also be 0. Alternatively, you can set a specific time of the day after N days pass when to send the challenges.





To learn more about how to set up automatic challenges: read more.



Progress report


The onboarding games bring a new progress report to perform the subsequent analysis of the game. To learn more about the onboarding progress report: read more.