Akoha

Akoha is a really cool play it forward game where you get mission cards for doing nice things and pass them on to others creating an online network of people taking real-world actions. This interview has some really good points and is well worth reading.

Empowering games are a new category and Akoha is doing something almost exactly like Empowerment's mission, idea, skill and tool cards will do.

Here's an excerpt:

There has been some information regarding the “make your own” card feature. How exactly will work? What sort of limitations do users have, or will have?

Right now we are collecting great ideas for missions from the community. In some cases missions are great ideas, but don’t fit our pay-it-forward game model. These include things you do by yourself (for example bike to work) that don’t involve interacting with someone else. In addition we are developing a few basic principles to ensure missions are appropriate, safe and fit within the type of community we are building.

Many of the missions being approved are great examples of our players’ creativity, and we are adding them to the Mission Headquarters as soon as possible. Users will then be able to add them to their mission inventory, print them at home, or play them online or via email with their friends.

In the future, mission cards can be assembled into decks that can be ordered on demand, or put into a community store available for purchase by other players.