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For example, he described a soon-to-be-released role-playing game for the OpenFeint platform that comes from a social network. The RPG uses friend gates where players must invite a certain number of new users before reaching the next level. While effective for a platform like Facebook, this invite mechanism falls flat on iOS or Android because the player is probably inviting players that already play the game instead of brand-new non-gaming users. To adapt the mechanic to mobile, Fassett says that the developer instead focused on reengaging the existing user base through a player-versus-player interaction that keeps players playing. “Consider it almost like a fight mechanic,” he says. “The character needs to fight friends instead of inviting more friends to overcome the challenge. On mobile, developers have to think a little bit deeper about what a player is going to do when they have to help out another player.”