Abstract: A cloud-based achievement and reward recognition portal exposes services that enable developers of games and other applications to author rules that govern the logging of player statistics that reflect a player's interactions and behaviors during gameplay. The logged player statistics are stored in a data repository and monitored by a service. The portal enables achievements to be authored that specify thresholds or other criteria for earning an achievement and obtaining an associated reward. When the monitoring of the player statistics indicates that a threshold has been crossed, a service will award the achievement to the player. A reward associated with the earned achievement can be provided to the player or unlocked within the game context.