Bonus Level! + Turn Life into a Game Part 2 + Habitica + Leslie + 009

Plus 7 Intelligence | How Games Impact People

08/17/17

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I speak with Leslie – one of the current operators of Habitica – the app that turns your life into a game
We talk about how Habitica has been helping people with everything from flossing to getting through med school
How we wish that we would spend as much time on ourselves as we do on our avatar
How games hold the key to so many productivity efforts: motivation
How Pokémon (aka Pokemon) and Dungeons & Dragons influenced the design of Habitica
How Habitica toes the line between being a game and being some that helps people be productive
The summer of Pokémon Go
How Habitica mixed the excitement of gaming and the open-source community with the goals of launching a successful and effective tool

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+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.
Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.
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Turn Life into a Game + Habitica + Tyler Renelle + 008

August 14, 2017

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Tyler Renelle is the creator and co-founder of Habitica, an app that turns your everyday tasks and habits into a video gameWe talk about the road from an idea to the successful Kickstarter of HabiticaHabitica is very complex, but uses strategies form games to ease users into creating new habitsMany people claimed to hold the secret to effective habit-forming, but Habitica sampled from many different games to create something that fits a variety of peopleTyler turns a bad World of Warcraft habit into the catalyst for self-improvementGoogle Deepmind and the curious way that games play a role in human progressLinks

Habitica Google DeepMind How games spurred the invention of probability theory

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The Journey of a Twitch Streamer + Shanna Zwart a.k.a ShannaNina + 010

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I speak with Shanna Zwart, also known as the Twitch Streamer Shannanina
We talk about her video game and music streaming career
Shanna’s history with video games
The personal connection that Shanna has about games and how they helped her through a difficult period of her life
How playing games online can either improve or hurt your friendships
Shannanina’s tough love advice for how to be a successful streamer
How Shanna’s experience going to school for game design (and dropping out) gave her a respect for indie game developers (Stardew valley)

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