Six Most Important Habits of a Self-Motivational Game Designer

Gameful wisdom on “practice and attention” and creating an exciting experience for ourselves.

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When you try to help yourself in whatever situation it might be, you become a designer. A designer of your life, but I also love to call this function a self-motivational game designer.

There is an open secret: any project, activity, or challenge have the same main components to their structure as do games. So, we are not only able to turn a project or activity into fun games for ourselves, but we can start by seeing them as such because they already are.

Therefore, the act of turning anything into fun games is about adjusting the available design of the project and activity to make it a great and exciting game. Plus experiencing the design activity as a game in itself.

Self-Gamification is an Art and a Game

So what does it take to be a self-motivational game designer? This person designs and develops engaging and fun games for themselves. She or he is also the player of their games. So…