It makes exactly zero use of potential retention mechanisms, even though there are several that come to mind here: Or you might want to impress friends and family.īut this is about it - At least for the voice app. You can guess (correctly) that you can answer with ‘I don’t know!’ or ‘Maybe’, but how would you know that you can also answer with ‘Probably not’, but not with ‘Go back’?Īs I said before, Akinator’s guessing abilities are really impressive, and some retention potential stems from the fact alone that you can think of a more obscure character and want to see if Akinator gets it. Lack of a tutorial The biggest and very obvious part of the user’s interaction is to answer with yes and no, but the game misses to educate the user about other options.A better alternative could have been to give an enthusiastic confirmation for a ‘yes’ answer (‘Great!’), a neutral confirmation for a ‘no’ answer (‘I see…’) and something like ‘No problem!’ if the user doesn’t know. While it makes to give a little confirmation, the monotony of the response is irritating (even though it occasionally uses a variation like ‘ No. Repetition Akinator repeats every choice the user makes, with very little variation, as shown in the example on the left.Alexa voice (← It’s linked to a glossary page!) This is something that irritates me deeply: Why should Akinator, the distinctly oriental-looking male genie depicted above, speak in Alexa’s US-American voice? I admit, it requires some creativity to come up with an alternative, but what about something like this?.What makes this game engaging is mainly the fact that you have to think about the right answers on Akinator’s questions, and the suspense of whether he finds out about your clever choice.Īpart from that, there are some engagement-related aspects where ‘Akinator’ is good, but not great. What’s your analysis of this game’s engagement? In my case, it guessed ‘Scar’ from Lion King and Aristotle right away, and Helmut Kohl at the second attempt.įor the sake of scientific inquiry, I gave Akinator randomly generated answers, and after guessing that I was thinking about Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelsohn, or Johannes Brahms, it asked some confused questions about my character’s hairstyle and origin and finally settled on ‘someone who is inappropriate for young audiences’.Įven though Akinator seems to be omniscient, he is forgiving of our patchy knowledge, and accepts answers like ‘I don’t know’ and ‘maybe’.Īlright, let’s continue this ‘scientific inquiry’. When it has enough information, it makes a first guess of the character, and if it doesn’t succeed, it asks some more questions before making another attempt. ![]() The success rate of Akinator is impressively high, at least in my samples. It does so by narrowing down the possible candidates through a series of yes-no (‘polar’) questions in the style of ‘ 20 questions’. Akinator is the name of a genie that tries to guess which character the user is thinking about.
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