#gameification

Hello, pilgrim, and welcome to the tavern ₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊

It looks like your stats are currently at zero!

0 Strength > strengthening the body 0 Dexterity > flexibility and cardio health 0 Constitution > nourishing your body 0 Intelligence > increasing knowledge, expanding horizons 0 Wisdom > discipline and willpower 0 Charisma > beauty, charm, and self care

You'll get nowhere with stats like that!! Let's see what we can do ~~

𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖇𝖔𝖆𝖗𝖉

these sometimes change depending on availability so do check in!

Strength

1 gym session (reward: 1 point)

Increase your weight (reward: 2 points)

Hit a PB (reward: 3 points)

Dexterity

15 minute stretch session (reward: 1 point)

30 minute low-intensity cardio (reward: 1 point)

30 minute stretch session (reward: 2 points)

10,000 steps (reward: 2 points)

Constitution

Ate within your calorie allowance (reward: 1 point)

Had your vitamins and medicine (reward: 1 point)

Lost 1 kg (reward: 1 point)

Drank 3 litres of water (reward: 2 points)

Did not drink any fizzy drinks (reward: 2 points)

Drank spearmint/herbal tea (reward: 2 points)

7 hours of sleep (reward: 2 points)

Intelligence

Read a book (reward: 1 point)

Listen to an educational podcast (reward: 1 point)

Studied 1 hour worth of languages (reward: 2 points)

Finished a book (reward: 3 points)

Wisdom

journal (reward: 1 point)

Didn't eat any dairy (reward: 1 point)

Didn't eat any gluten (reward: 1 point)

Meditated (reward: 1 point)

Didn't spend money (reward: 2 points)

Cleansing/banishing (reward: 2 points)

Daily devotionals (for me, liber resh) (reward: 2 points)

Levelled up (reward: 5 points)

Charisma

Skincare (reward: 1 point)

Floss (reward: 1 point)

Hair styled (reward: 2 points)

Exfoliate (reward: 2 points)

Manicure/pedicure (reward: 2 points)

Did you know, for every 10 points you earn for each area, you can claim a reward? The higher your level, the better your reward!

Level Rewards ~~

1 > guilt-free bed rot day 2 > bake myself a small treat 3 > bubble tea 4 > new book 5 > have a self-date to see a film 6 > buy a new outfit 7 > 'cheat' meal 8 > 'cheat' day 9 > Buy a big wishlist item! 10 > Spa day

Of course, if you wish to barter for alternate rewards, we can arrange that for you

Not to mention, the higher your stats the higher your reputation! Right now, you may be a nobody but the sky is the limit, who knows where you could end up ~~

And feel free to visit the tavern as much as you would like, we can help you record your accomplishments and advertise your services for larger quests.

Larger quests are big ticket items that can earn you over 5 points! These take much longer than regular quest items and don't come around as often, the board is empty of them now but check back in, you never know what you'll find!

Good luck on your quests, pilgrims, I look forward to hearing of your progress . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.

But I'm not a creative! I've long since accepted that I'm better at tweaking existing ideas rather than coming up with my own. I can figure out how to make a wild face that shoots back if you shoot the wrong eye

WEEKLY STATUS REPORT: NEW SUBSCRIBER SET, SUPERNATURAL SKINS & HAUNTED HAIR SETS, AND OCTOBER OFFICIAL CHALLENGES!

Hey Habiticans! We’ve got a roundup of all the exciting things going on in Habitica, just in case you missed anything while you were busy being productive.

First up, it's finally October! We've got the perfect subscriber gear to celebrate. Get the Beguilingly Batty Set plus other sweet perks when you subscribe to Habitica by Oct 31!  Learn more via Menu > Subscriptions.

The Seasonal Edition Haunted Hair Colors and Supernatural Skin Set are now available for purchase! Find these exciting skins and hair colors in Menu > Customize Avatar. Get them before October 31st, or you’ll have to wait until next year!

For this month's Challenge, Staying Strong, we're focusing on boosting your motivation heading into the final quarter of the year! It has a 15 Gem prize, which will be awarded to five lucky winners on November 2nd. 

The next Take This Challenge has also launched, "Do One Thing Well!", with a focus on single-tasking and distraction management. Be sure to check it out to earn additional pieces of the Take This armor set! 

Plus, all participants in that Challenge have received a piece of the Take This item set if they hadn't completed it already. It is located in your Rewards column. Enjoy!

Speaking of challenges, the Community Costume Challenge has begun! Until October 31st, dress up as your avatar in real life and post a photo on social media to get the coveted Costume Challenge badge and a chance to be featured on Habitica's social media accounts! Click here for full rules. 

For this week’s assignment, we need three examples of media convergence and gamification.

My three examples are:

1. Habitica

https://habitica.com/

Habitica is a habit tracking platform that turns your everyday tasks and goals into quests that earn you experience points to level up an 8-bit avatar and gold to outfit them with epic loot. For daily tasks or habits, not completing them will result in your avatar losing hit points. 

2. Zombies, Run!

https://zombiesrungame.com/

Zombies, Run! is an exercise game. You have to run from zombies. You can track your run with either GPS functionality or a gyroscope in your phone. It plays music through your speaker or headphones until the zombies show up and then you have to run faster. While you’re running, you automatically pick up supplies to upgrade your home base, and there’s a storyline that plays out over the speaker as well. 

3. SuperBetter

https://www.superbetter.com/

Watch and listen here: https://steemit.com/life/@paradise-paradox/indiana-jones-in-real-life-a-game-concept-an-interview-with-andrarchy

You might have heard people say occasionally that "life is a game", or even that you can choose your own game in life - some people choose to accumulate more money, to get a better credit score, some choose to bring happiness to others wherever they can, to make beautiful things, to seek enlightenment. There are many ways to play this game, but with the way certain people act, it seems that they're not aware it's a game. It's a wild ride, and people seem to not be aware that it's only a ride.

What if we could somehow make it explicit that we are playing a game, and create goals and rewards as we go along? What if making the game explicit allowed us to step outside of ourselves - maybe give ourselves permission to do things that we wouldn't normally? What would we gain from that? How would it change our perspective - making us feel more fulfilled, content in the knowledge that we, in many respects, have nothing to lose by playing?

In this episode, Kurt interviews Andrew Levine (a.k.a. andrarchy) and finds out some of his ideas on how we can gameify reality, and gameify our lives, giving us that vital perspective, and allowing us to discover other parts of ourselves in a safe environment. Andrew calls his idea "Indiana Jones in real life" - running around the world, trying to find different artefacts, and at the same time constructing the rules of the game, and perhaps formulating puzzles for other players to solve.

Earlier in the year I wrote this (How I’m training for my next marathon : Gameification), explaining my approach to marathon training this year was going to involve game-ifying the process, as one of the big problems I have with training is when you just have one thing, many months from now, to work towards it’s really easy to lose focus and slack off.

So I wanted to check back in, just 3 days ahead of my marathon, and look at whether gameification of the process had allowed me to prepare any better this time than two years ago. 

Below you’ll see three charts, the pink line is 2016 and the purple is 2014 (apologies on the colours - the charting tool was not flexible!), they represent progress across the year for kilometres covered, number of activities undertaken and finally time spent training. It’s incredibly clear, I think if the point of gameifying my training was too increase volume, gameification has completely succeeded. In each chart I have nearly TRIPLED my training volume by marathon day.

2014 value = 256km , 2016 value = 697km 

2014 value = 25, 2016 value = 70

2014 value = 20hrs, 2016 value = 61hrs

Importantly gameifying the process has had the exact effect I hoped for, when it was frosty/icey/snowy I was still motivated to go out and run for 2 hours. Now as I finish my training and start to think about the race the level of self doubt I have is tiny. I look at those charts and feel very prepared, if I ran a 3 and a half hour marathon on a third of the training last time imagine what I could do this time (though that is in itself a scary way to look at things, because if I only improve by 1% or actually don’t improve at all the whole feel good of this method is likely to be severely tarnished I suppose).

In conclusion, unless things go very badly, I can’t see why I wouldn't do this again. I've enjoyed the technology aspect of tracking everything, I’ve enjoyed the gameifying process and feeling achievement along the way. Micro-rewards have made me want to do every run, when I’ve felt like missing a run it hasn't felt like ‘oh it’s just one run of many’ it’s felt important because that run doesn't just contribute 1% to my over training goal, it contributes 10/15% of my way to my next reward, and that’s hugely motivating.This is probably the best experience I’ve ever had of sticking to a workout or training plan.