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"Time the drop, stack the cans clean." Line every layer up and the reward climbs.
01 · The idea
Make loyalty something you do.
The store had tried a "Spin to Win" from an outside agency, and it didn't deliver. A spin is luck, and luck is forgettable. I wanted the opposite: a reward you earn with your hands, in a place that looks like the brand, that people come back to on purpose.
So the loyalty program became an arcade. Spending money earns tokens. Tokens go into real-looking cabinets. Skill decides the prize. And because a token can turn into a discount, the whole economy hangs on one rule.
"The client may only display a balance and request an action. It can never create, compute, spend, or reveal the outcome of anything involving tokens."The single principle, from my arcade spec
02 · How it works
The token loop.
$25
Earn
Every $25 spent mints one token, automatically. Refund an order and its tokens go with it.
3D
Choose
Walk the lobby and pick a cabinet. Phones that can't run 3D get a 2D lobby, so everyone plays.
1
Play
One token per game. Skill games, not slot machines: your score is what counts.
5–15%
Win
Your score lands on a discount ladder, and a real, single-use code is issued on the spot.
03 · The machines
Five cabinets, five games.
04 · The mascot
Buck wants to be spent.
Buck is a token with googly eyes, a hand-puppet mouth and one goal: to get put in a machine. His catchphrase is "Put me in." He explains the whole program in one breath, and heckles you while you play.
- BuckHey. You got a second?
- BuckI'm a token.
- BuckDetailing World gives you one of me every twenty-five bucks you spend.
- BuckThat's the whole deal. That's it. That's the arrangement.
- BuckI'm just sitting here.
To make the ads, I built a sandbox copy of the arcade that boots clean and full-frame for vertical video, so Buck performs scripted spots against the real machines and real gameplay, not mockups.
05 · The calls
Why it works.
The server decides everything.
Tokens only come from payments Shopify confirms. Scores are judged and prizes issued on the server, and every code works once. A token is real money, so it's treated like money.
Skill, with a ceiling.
Rewards run from a 5% floor to a 15% cap, tuned per game. Great players feel rewarded, and nobody can break the bank.
The cabinets are the brand.
Every machine wears Detailing World's purple and green, with stickers from the brands the store carries slapped on like a real arcade. The lobby is the store's personality.
Everyone gets to play.
Phones that can't handle 3D get a 2D lobby automatically, and every game has thumb controls. The fun can't depend on someone's hardware.
