Sky Farm Island Roblox Game Tools for Real Life Growing

Features included clear growing instructions, social sharing for progress, novelty face cut-out stands, and a rewards system to motivate participation and success.

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This project involved working with the team behind the Roblox game Sky Farm Island to create tools that encourage families in Singapore—parents and kids alike—to participate in real-life vegetable growing. The goal was to integrate digital gameplay with hands-on, community-based agricultural activities, making vegetable growing a fun and rewarding experience for both children and their parents.

Key Design Features:

  • 30-Day Growing Challenge:
    • A structured challenge encouraging families to grow vegetables over a 30-day period, fostering engagement through clear milestones and daily tasks.
  • Pledge and Commitment System:
    • A tool for families to make a formal pledge to start growing vegetables, encouraging accountability and sustained participation.
  • Step-by-Step Growing Instructions:
    • Simple, easy-to-follow instructions guiding families on exactly what to grow, tailored for Singapore’s local climate and community spaces.
  • Outreach Plan for Parent Groups:
    • A targeted outreach strategy aimed at local parent groups to generate awareness and recruit families to join the growing initiative.
  • Social Invitation and Sharing System:
    • A social sharing tool for kids and parents to capture evidence of their growing efforts and share it with others in the community, creating a network of shared progress and support.
  • Face Cut-Out Stands for Engagement:
    • Fun, novelty stands where kids can take photos with their faces cut out, encouraging participation and spreading awareness through social media.
  • Rewards System for Successful Growers:
    • Families who successfully start and sustain their vegetable growing are rewarded with badges, certificates, or in-game rewards to motivate continued engagement.

This set of tools was designed to create a bridge between the virtual world of Sky Farm Island and real-world gardening, fostering both digital and physical community participation.

Psychology Techniques

Commitment Device

A mechanism that causes someone to make a verbal or written promise to another person to complete an action.

Groups

Putting people into groups as a way to create accountability, social cohesion, and social diffusion that leads to persistent behavior change.

Identity

Ways to enhance people's environmentally conscientious identity is a foundation to persistent intrinsic motivation.

Novelty

An exciting and unusual experience helps to attract attention, build emotional resonance, and make information stick.

Rewards

A digital, physical, or emotional reward given to the participant after they complete a task or improve their performance.

Social Diffusion

The mechanism of how behaviors, values, and preferences spread from one person to another via social contact.

Time-Based Challenge

Applying a specific start and end date for a behavior increases people's propensity to commit to the action.