The story: Justin loves Evony so much he checks it when he gets in from school and when he gets up in the morning. The plus side is he’s got 50k prestige points and is revered by responsible adults, but the minus is he no longer does his guitar practice, forgets to help with chores and has an average of 3 out of 20 in history.
His mother wants to do something about it but she’s worried he might have a similar reaction to the kid in this video if she cancels his account…

The idea: An application that allows access to Evony (or Facebook, or any other MMORPG) only if a third party (physical or application) allows it. For example Justin comes in from school and logs onto FB, the gate asks for a certificate that he’s done his half hour guitar practice. Once he’s practiced, his mom simply sends the certificate via a simple button on the her mobile app. Same for homework. The app can be integrated to any other website, meaning for instance that Justin’s dad can ‘make’ him do half an hour of online history tests in order to obtain access to Facebook or whatever.

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