Some thoughts on HabitRPG
Mar. 20th, 2013 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
HabitRPG is a sort of mix of gaming and a to-do list. There are three categories you can add things to. "Habits" are things you may want to do several times a day, "dailies" are once-a-day things and "to-dos" are one-time things. You type them in yourself, and you can add or subtract new ones all along, as far as I can tell.
"Good" actions (as you define them--but doing the good side of a habit, or checking off a daily, or checking off a to-do) gain you experience and gold. "Bad" actions (again as you define them--but doing a bad habit, or not checking off a daily) cost you hit points. You can specify "rewards" (and are encouraged to) and can spend your gold on them (and then presumably go claim them in real life, if that's something you can do. So you could specify that a new fantasy book is 20 gold, and when you earn that much, you check off the reward and then go to the store and buy your new fantasy book to reward yourself.)
So I thought of a clever new habit "clean kitchen while heating drinks in the microwave." If I remember to do it, I click the plus side, if I forget, the minus side (but I hardly forget at all now.) And another new habit "work on new song" and another "meditate." My dailies are things like "practice mandolin" "practice octave mandolin" "practice vocals" "exercise" "three helpings veggies" and stuff like that. Recent to-dos were "Put Under The Gripping Beast on Bandcamp", and "make playlist of my favorites of Peter's songs"
So far, so good. The kitchen is, if not quite "sparkling," as Kip claimed this morning, still clean enough that I wouldn't be embarrassed to have a stranger drop in. I've worked on songs the past three days, and have a couple new ones well on the way to being finished. Two Echo's Children CDs are up on Bandcamp now, and the third and fourth are in the queue. I'm doing a lot better than I have been the past couple of months, when it was all I could do to get my practicing done. I think I like this game.
"Good" actions (as you define them--but doing the good side of a habit, or checking off a daily, or checking off a to-do) gain you experience and gold. "Bad" actions (again as you define them--but doing a bad habit, or not checking off a daily) cost you hit points. You can specify "rewards" (and are encouraged to) and can spend your gold on them (and then presumably go claim them in real life, if that's something you can do. So you could specify that a new fantasy book is 20 gold, and when you earn that much, you check off the reward and then go to the store and buy your new fantasy book to reward yourself.)
So I thought of a clever new habit "clean kitchen while heating drinks in the microwave." If I remember to do it, I click the plus side, if I forget, the minus side (but I hardly forget at all now.) And another new habit "work on new song" and another "meditate." My dailies are things like "practice mandolin" "practice octave mandolin" "practice vocals" "exercise" "three helpings veggies" and stuff like that. Recent to-dos were "Put Under The Gripping Beast on Bandcamp", and "make playlist of my favorites of Peter's songs"
So far, so good. The kitchen is, if not quite "sparkling," as Kip claimed this morning, still clean enough that I wouldn't be embarrassed to have a stranger drop in. I've worked on songs the past three days, and have a couple new ones well on the way to being finished. Two Echo's Children CDs are up on Bandcamp now, and the third and fourth are in the queue. I'm doing a lot better than I have been the past couple of months, when it was all I could do to get my practicing done. I think I like this game.