For the Fantasy Formula 1 Grand Prix 2012 season, I’ve been working on a new feature, called awards and achievements. It has been quite a bit of fun writing the code and doing the graphics, although credit has to go-to Malc in re-doing and re-rendering all the cup images in 3D since the old images was starting to look a little dated.
Awards
First off, the awards are the cups that get awarded to teams at each race for coming 1st, 2nd, 3rd and last. The prediction medals get award for 2 or more correct predictions. If you have been following the FF1GP for the last few years, you will be correct in saying this isn’t anything new. What is new for 2012, is the ability for league owners to allow the award of league cups to players in their leagues. Hopefully that will provide a bit of excitement when you win one of the cups in your leagues.
Achievements
Achievements are unlocked when you enter a team or enter a prediction. So when you enter a team that selects a 2012 rookie driver, you will unlock the “Pick a Rookie driver” achievement. There are many ways to pick up achievements, so you best bet is to look at the list of achievements page and figure out how to unlock them. Some are hard, some not so easy.
Here is a screenshot of what my page looks like after entering a team. (Please note this is from the dev site, so I do have a load of extra awards, that I don’t normally have!)
I will be adding more achievements throughout the year, some for certain races, and there will be some for the end of the season to award the overall winners of the year. I’ve already received ideas for new achievements, including some involving Eddie Jordan’s shirts and David Coulthard’s jeans. (Not quite sure how that will work yet!)
If you have any ideas for achievements, please leave a comment or drop me a line via twitter or email.
Prediction achievements
Some of you may have entered a prediction and suddenly collected a big set of prediction achievements, such as the 25, 50, 75 and 250. Yes it is counting the past predictions, so don’t worry this isn’t a bug. I see 2 players have already picked up the “Enter 250 predictions” which is impressive!
What’s next
There are a few things that need adding, which are planned to be implemented before the 1st Grand Prix.
The first is a new page that lists the players teams and obtained achievements so far, as it’s currently a little bit difficult to brag that you picked up a load of awards and achievements.
Also on the awards page, it will list the number of players that have collected each achievement.
Past awards
I do have a plan to award achievements and awards for past race wins, and also setup awards for the past winners. However before that can happen, the whole website needs to go over to the new database design and framework so the old data can be imported properly. There isn’t a date set for this yet, there is quite a lot of work to do first on other areas of the FF1GP website first.
