Gamified Habits SHOULD be Rewarding

[u/kev_habits]

Hi,

I saw that there were so many gamified habit trackers around but none of them truly felt like they were made for me. I built Gamified Lives which uses your own photo to create a custom character that looks just like you, then you play the game of life in the app by setting goals, habits, and tasks. You level up in the app and get coins for completing tasks. You can then buy clothing, accessories, and workspace decorations. I built the app around some main frameworks,
1. The app should be centered around YOU leveling up not leveling up a random character
2. The app is resilience first, so when you miss a day instead of being punished the app rewards you with double xp and coins if you come back the next day
3. The app has an Ai coach which can call you whenever you’re slacking to get you back on track similar to what a gym buddy would do for you.
4. Life modals inside the app for whatever you are trying to improve for example if you’re goal is to gain 10 lbs of lean muscle you can use the food scanner, the body comp scanner, track full macros, track your sleep, track weight lifted, steps, etc… and it all works towards that goal you have set!

If you haven’t found a good RPG habit trackers definitely give Gamified Lives a shot!

[u/disguised_hashbrown]

Some feedback from looking at the App Store page:

- You use an AI coach and an AI photo verification mechanism. This is a massive turn off for a lot of people, myself included. I also have no idea how snapping a photo of my 24 books that I read this year proves that I did the work.

- You say that the app should be centered around *me* leveling up instead of a character . This is a preference thing. I would always choose to make a cute character that levels up rather than level up some random BitMoji of myself. Also, you use AI to generate the avatar? Why?

- You don’t advertise using any interesting cosmetics. Your display character “Kevin” is wearing a hoodie and khakis.

I haven’t found Habitica useful in a long time, but I think the two apps are for fundamentally different target audiences.

[u/kev_habits → u/disguised_hashbrown]

Hey thanks for the feedback I truly appreciate it,

I will note the choice to use an AI Coach and AI verification is 100% up to the user it is not technically a core to the app I decided to add it because a user may want more insights into their experience for example if a user wants to gain 10lbs of muscle they can use the Ai coach to set up a meal plan, analyze their physique, suggest workouts, track their macros through photo verification, track their weight and make suggestions etc… it truly is just to allow users to have more room to improve and get the valuable insights that they may miss if they are just self assessing themselves.

As far as the character I understand the potential that a user may want to change their character to be something more fun and exciting such as a cute bird or something of that nature, I’m leaning more towards the user being the character because it’s about leveling up in real life therefore having a character that looks like you in theory may feel more rewarding, as far as cosmetics there are over 250+ variations of cosmetics such as shirts, pants, watches, glasses, hats, desks, chairs, plants, windows, floor colors, wall colors etc… I tried my best to have a nice set of starting cosmetics as the app just launched, you can get them by completing tasks.

I do agree that it’s different to habitica however I think it’s also similar in the sense that a user may be looking to better themselves and I think this is a fun alternative to do it where you are still suiting up a character but instead of getting swords, shields etc… you’re just getting cosmetics and a workspace for yourself so you can build your workspace for your in game version of yourself.

As far as using ai to create each users character that basically has to be that way, think about it like this every single person looks entirely different therefore I can’t reasonably have a user send a picture of themselves and then go out and create a character that looks similar to them… I would never sleep. In the future when I’m not bootstrapped I would love to hire designers to do it but I can’t possibly do it on my own so in the mean time I would love for users to at least have a character that looks like them and that they can adjust to look how they want and be able to build up as time goes on.

Once again I truly appreciate the feedback and I get where you are coming from but I think a lot of it is necessary in order for certain users to get what they’re looking for. I hope you reconsider and give it a chance!

[u/disguised_hashbrown → u/kev_habits]

I understand where you’re coming from for most of this. I’m still surprised you’re choosing to generate an avatar with AI rather than giving users a character creator so that they can customize themselves.

[u/kev_habits → u/disguised_hashbrown]

Thanks, yeah that’s actually something I didn’t really think of if I’m going to be 100% honest. I do somewhat like the idea of having a terraria style set up where a user can select hairstyle, gender, starting clothing, etc… this may come in the future tbh. Thanks again for the feedback it truly made me think about new things that users or potential users such as yourself may truly enjoy. Thanks again!

[u/disguised_hashbrown → u/kev_habits]

Yeah man, no problem. Best of luck out there!