Turn Life into a Game + Habitica + Tyler Renelle + 008
Plus 7 Intelligence | How Games Impact People
08/14/17
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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
HabiticaGoogle DeepMindHow games spurred the invention of probability theory
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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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Games for Charity + Child’s Play + Travis Eriksen + 007
August 7, 2017
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+7 Talks with Travis Eriksen of the Gamer-founded charity, Child’s PlayWe talk about how Child’s Play was founded by gamers of Penny Arcade wanting to counter negative press with positive actionHow the most uninteresting game of all time is used to raise moneyChild’s Play donates games because the positive effects on mood, morale, confidence, and even because it reduces the need for pain medicationPlease consider donating to Child’s Play – if that’s not something you can do, then spread the word around.Links
Child’s Play Charity Home PageThe Therapeutic Game GuideDonate to Child’s PlaySnow World – pain reduction in VRDesert Bus-the most inoffensive video game of all time from Penn & TellerTiltifyPenny ArcadeEEDAR – the videogame database
Quora Session with Ches – taking questions until Wednesday 8/9, 4pm Eastern. That is when you will get to start seeing my responses. You can submit questions about the show and anything else you see fit!
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Bonus Level! + Turn Life into a Game Part 2 + Habitica + Leslie + 009
August 17, 2017
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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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