It provided the blueprint for the modern
gamified dating app.
For the latest instalment of our video interview series, GDI caught up with The Apprentice finalist Vana Koutsomitis to speak about her new
gamified dating app.
And with these parts in place, the company is expecting to launch
the gamified dating app this autumn.
Last month, ooOo,
the gamified dating platform built by dm ³ LTD, won the early stage category at our first ever GDI Spotlight competition — read more about the awards night here.
Innovative
gamified dating platform ooOo ® has just launched for Android and mobile web, and has already seen a 324 % increase in signups.
Apprentice finalist Vana Koutsomitis has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund her forthcoming
gamified dating app DatePlay.
DatePlay,
the gamified dating app founded by Apprentice finalist Vana Koutsomitis, has now reached # 200,000 from its Seedrs campaign.
In order to monetise mobile dating traffic, where micro payments are the only low friction option, some operators have tried to
gamify the dating experience to try and deliver the same stream of conversion events.
Zoosk is kind of
gamifying the dating site, in an effective way.
Not exact matches
«We are different because we are
gamifying the process,» says founder Shannon Ong, who describes TheCatch as a digital upgrade on a cross between The Bachelorette and The
Dating Game.
In 2012 came Tinder which «
gamified» the online
dating process.
Alexander and Cresci also explain that apps like Tinder have perhaps trivialised
dating and made the process more
gamified and they mention that this could have resulted in the idea that there is always someone better out there.
Dating apps also offer
gamified features via in - app purchases, for example streamlining the matching process or helping users stand out within their profiles.
The
gamified product's unique take on mobile
dating, as well as its impressive security system and offline capabilities, impressed the judges and audience at the GDI Spotlight on Startups competition, with ooOo being crowned the early stage winner.
SPARKS is a unique App that changes online
dating completely, using a
gamified solution you will discover singles you are talking to little by.
The Inner Circle really prides itself firstly, on not being a
gamified or gimmicky app which encourages respectful behaviour between users, and secondly, having some unique features such as the travel and spots features, and the wall on which users can post about up and coming Events, all things which better engage users, give them starting points of things to talk about on
dates, as well as giving them a better experience in The Inner Circle's
dating community.
In addition to its
gamified grid - based matching system, which doesn't ape the swiping mechanism of Tinder like many other
dating apps, on each grid of four, ooOo ® also tells users how many people on the screen liked them, but doesn't reveal who.
And although she lost out to Joseph Valente, the New York - born entrepreneur is now prepping the release of the
gamified mobile
dating product DatePlay.
The New York entrepreneur pitched the idea for the app in the final stages of the BBC show, impressing industry insiders and advisors with its
gamified spin on mobile
dating.
«Our research shows an intense lack of engagement with casual
dating apps such as Tinder, as the novelty of a
gamified online
dating experience wears off.
Qualify has
gamified mobile
dating the app allows users to create.
Coffee Meets Bagel also
gamifies the mobile
dating process, giving you coffee beans in your account for your daily log ins, as well as more beans when you invite more friends to use the app.
Launched for iOS earlier this year by David Minns, the entrepreneur behind Platform
Dating, ooOo is a gamified mobile dating product that works by showing you a grid of four potential matches, and asks you to choos
Dating, ooOo is a
gamified mobile
dating product that works by showing you a grid of four potential matches, and asks you to choos
dating product that works by showing you a grid of four potential matches, and asks you to choose one.
The sexually stimulating
dating site operates on a points system that helps to
gamify the entire experience, making it more playful and allowing your sexual imagination to run wild — in many cases, as wild as you can afford.
EI Design's
Gamified eBook «How Gamification Is Reshaping Corporate Training», and their innovative Microlearning nugget on Data Security «A
Date With Data Dave» have won 2 Gold and 2 Silver at the Davey Awards.