Hi Dan!
We have a few ideas with this respect concerning the STEMsocial app (proposal #91). We actually already have various badges made by our designer to represent a part of the rewards attached to some goals. The next step is to figure out what those goals are and get some more concrete associated rewards on top of a badge.
What we have in mind is to associate gamification with engagement and a homemade reputation metric. It is of course not like a game in the pure sense of it, but it matches the goal of the STEMsocial project (science communication on Hive within a very-alive community). Any other idea is more than welcome, of course!
PS: those badges and gamification stuff are not explicitly indicated on the project roadmap, but it is on our longer internal to-do list. We started this with our Honour Members initiative, which was resurrected 10 days ago (see here for more information).
RE: World First, Character Second.