Designing a pluggable points and badges system [closed]
How do I design a pluggable points and badges system which is easy to turn on and off, as well as easy to turn into a module of its own? After many trials and errors I reached the conclusion that points and badges are simply too intertwined into the sole business logic of the application that they cannot be externalized in a simple way (many rules involve understanding of the core structure of the application, which makes things already quite coupled) I currently do everything the simple way - I externalized all the business logic (validation, persistence, gamification, notifications) in the