Looks like it's missing a bunch of retention hooks to bring users back to continually engage and check int. Whether it's email reminders, notifications etc. I created an account 2 weeks ago, only remembered about HabitRPG now after checking out HN.
HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game
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#12It's cool, but I'll be really glad when this retro-pixelation fad goes away. It makes me sad that we have great things like SVG accessible now but so many people seem fixated on making games with early '90s 16-bit graphics.
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#13It's cool, but I'll be really glad when this retro-pixelation fad goes away. It makes me sad that we have great things like SVG accessible now but so many people seem fixated on making games with early '90s 16-bit graphics.
I don't think it's a fad. It's just an artistic style at this point. There are a lot of instances where I think it can look better than SVG, but to each his own.
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#14This is awesome, I'm really looking forward to digging into this. I have a similar app at https://metamorf.us, which gamifies social interactions to improve social skills. Metamorfus is wicked young and has a long way to go, but the goal is to have it as engaging and cool as HabitRPG.
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#15It's cool, but I'll be really glad when this retro-pixelation fad goes away. It makes me sad that we have great things like SVG accessible now but so many people seem fixated on making games with early '90s 16-bit graphics.
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#16This interface paradigm has, I believe, become known as gamification;
an example from another domain, language learning, would be Duolingo[0].
Engaging as such applications are with their stimulus of powerful primordial triggers, they all too often transport not just a game's gratifying aspects into the problem domain (todo lists, in this case), but also the gaming mindset, resulting in terribly linear interfaces and data structures.
I do believe that even a serious todo list application, or, as it were, language learning platform, would benefit from similiarly engaging elements, effective by virtue of our cerebral heritage.
Nevertheless, I have yet to see a successful marriage.
A gamified Emacs Org-mode[1], perhaps?
[0] An ingenious platform that ostensibly allows anyone to learn a language by doing bite-sized exercises and translating sentences, while effectively training the proprietary Duolingo translation engine. See http://duolingo.com
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#17The Android version is going to need a lot of polish. The menu is jittery and the wrong icons are used. Also the whole app lacks touch feed back so there is no way of telling if you are pressing a button or not until afterwards. Finally, a few idioms like long pressing to edit items and such remain unimplemented which atl east made me confused.
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#18The Android version is going to need a lot of polish. The menu is jittery and the wrong icons are used. Also the whole app lacks touch feed back so there is no way of telling if you are pressing a button or not until afterwards. Finally, a few idioms like long pressing to edit items and such remain unimplemented which atl east made me confused.
I have had zero luck with the android app, but the webapp is perfectly playable from chrome-on-android
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#19I'll second RazvanPanda, this has been lifechanging for me. I tend to have a lot of trouble with ADLs (activities of daily living) and this really helps me keep on top of them. Trivial example: I've been consistently flossing nightly for a month and a half now.
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#20You're 5 years too late. Gamification is old now.