Gamification at Work: Habitica

The label Gamification was hyped and interesting 24 month ago. Currently its burned and buried. But for me there are scenarios where this approach is working.

After some time in absent I rediscovered Habitica formerly known as HabitRPG. Habitica is a at first a system for develop and maintain your habits. It has also a task planner but the true gold lies in the repeating task you do every day to improve yourself.

Every day I maintain my two lists: Habits and daily Tasks. These are the quests of my day. If I do the tasks and habits consequently I’ve got rewards and help people in a group to slay demons and dragons. But more important, I do and learn things in real life, which I had never done:

• learning a new language
• traveling
• doing sports
• avoid sweets
• participate at an open source project

Give it a try. Develop your habits. Participate. Do good things. Help other people!