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Elijah Michael Jamison posted an update in the group MIS 4596 Spring 2017 – Mandviwalla 7 years, 9 months ago
Team Members: Elijah Jamison, Kyle Domsohn, Tyler Urguhart
We want to build a platform that would help gamers find better teams and provide a place where players can find people to practice with or against. For instance, most team-based games have players that fill specific roles. If I specialize in healing and have spent 50+ hours practicing with a healer, it would be nice to team with somebody who has spent 50+ hours practicing on a tank, as our skill sets will go well together.
Websites that exist for this purpose do not account for player’s specialization and prior experience. Our main goal is to help find the perfect teams of players with skill sets that would compliment each other the most efficiently. Essentially, it’s Match.com for gamers, but the matches are specific for different games based on players’ experience levels and specializations.
Additionally, the platform will provide a place to find a sort of “sparring-partner.” Take a football game for example. Maybe my passing defense is very good, but I don’t know how to defend the run well. I could find someone who excels at running to play against to learn and improve my run defense.
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Additionally, our platform would also connect teams and players to others in their skill level for competitive type games or ranked matches. These matches will be where players and teams put their skills to the test as all the matches will be recorded to create individual ranks. These ranks will dictate who is matched up with who to ensure that players are competing with others at their own skill level. Also, it will incite competition as teams/players who win will be moved up the ranks and vice versa. The game modes would consist of single matches and tournament to meet different preferences. Finally, these matches would allow users to win prize money by offering buy ins. For example, a team can enter a tournament of ten teams where each team needs to pay $10 to enter and the winner of the tournament gets to take home the $100.
This sounds interesting. My challenge is I know very little about gaming, well other than solitaire and wolfestein! If this is really new then it sounds like you have something here. The scope is good and it is doable and has sufficient complexity. What do the other members of the class think? Would something like this be new and used by gamers?