Compare and Contrast the Respect Game app and Fractal App

Over the past few months, we’ve been scoping and designing an application that makes it easy for communities to play the Respect Game and coordinate their governance with fractal decision-making processes. As we’ve been exploring features and designs for these apps, I’ve realized that that there is likely a need for two different apps: a Respect Game app and a Fractal app. Both of these apps are intended to make it easy for anyone to play the Respect Game, but they differentiate in their focus.

The Fractal App is envisioned as a comprehensive app for communities and organizations to coordinate their operation with the Respect Game at weekly events (like Optimism Fractal). This includes governance features like voting with respect, forming councils, and social media networks for the community to interact between events. The Fractal app features one community token (such as OPF) that can be used to coordinate the activities and decision of the community. It is largely inspired by the original design of fractal communities at fractally.com.

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The Respect Game app is envisioned as a streamlined gaming app that makes it really fun and easy for people the Respect Game. This app will provide a lighter experience that makes it easier to start playing in a wider variety of contexts, even if they don’t yet have a community with whom they wish to play with at weekly event. The Respect Game app will allow anyone to play with anyone at any time. All players should be able to issue their own Respect, which can then be used in the Fractal App with advanced decision-making functionality in the future if they’d like. This app can also may makes it easier for people to play fun variations of the Respect Game.

We’ve started coordinating the development of both of these apps in the following projects. Much of the work on these projects is currently in an internal Optimystics database and will be shared in the public Optimism Fractal projects as soon as possible. You can find details about each of these developments the project to Build Respect Game App and Build Optimism Fractal App.