Campaigns

Campaigns are special assignments that users can do to claim corresponding badges. They are meant to make the game more interesting and to motivate users to do certain annotations in a certain order. They consist of a series of games that have to be played in a certain order in order to finish the campaign.

The progress of a user for all campaigns will be tracked and shown to the user when the user is playing the campaign. When the user is done playing a campaign, the corresponding badge will be added to the users profile page and the campaign will become grayed out in the campaign overview page.

Campaigns have a level of difficulty and ensure that users can only play campaigns of their level or easier. When creating a new campaign, make sure that the level of the campaign is not lower then the level of the highest level game included in the campaign.

For now, new campaigns can be created with seeding commands in the seeding document "app/database/seeds/DevelopDBSeeder.php". A more convenient interface will be built into the CrowdTruth platform later on.