Turn Your Life into a Game with HabitRPG

We have all tried at some point to keep track of things that we do or things that need to be done. From to-do lists and calendars to various web and mobile apps. But come on, we all also know that they are boring.

HabitRPG takes a different take on managing your tasks and habits. It turns your habits into a Role-Playing Game (RPG). You can earn experience points (XP), gain levels and stay alive by getting things done. And I can tell you that this gamification of my life has helped me a lot.

Earn experience points (XP), gain levels and stay alive by getting things done.

Core Mechanics

You can create various types of tasks. There are four types of lists:

Habits

In this you can add habits that you want to maintain or get rid of. Positive habits give you experience and negative habits cost you health points (HP).

Dailies

Dailies are tasks that you want to do daily. If you don’t complete a daily it costs you HP. You can also select to do tasks only certain days in a week.

To-Dos

To-Dos are tasks that you need to complete just ones. They cost you anything for not completing them.

Rewards

You can spend the gold you earn on rewards. You can create your own custom rewards. In game rewards are unlocked once you reach level 2. You can buy equipment for your avatar with different attributes like more XP gained or less HP lost.

Reward yourself when you get things done. You deserve it.

You gain XP, gold, silver and drops for completing you tasks and doing good habits. You lose HP if you don’t complete your dailies or for doing bad habits. One thing worth mentioning here is that it’s important to be sincere. The game will benefit you only if you are honest to yourself and the game.

The game will benefit you only if you are honest to yourself and the game.

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If you lose your entire HP you die. If you die you lose one level, all your gold and silver and one item of your armor and respawn. If you gain enough experience you get to the next level and your HP is restored.

The less you fail at a task, the more HP it will cost you on failing. You can also add advance options to tasks like difficulty, tags, description and checklist.

Character Customization

Different skin color, clothing, hairstyle weapons, pets and mounts are available. Some are free and some are unlocked by a small donation or contributing in several aspects. Character classes are unlocked once you reach level 10.

Character classes are unlocked once you reach level 10.

Social Aspects

The Tavern

It serves two purposes. Firstly, it works like an open forum/chat to ask questions and meet other users/players. Also, it lets you rest at the inn so that dailies don’t hurt you.

Party System

You can form a party with your friends or other users.You can normaly find a party or people looking to join one here. Every party gets a chat in which you can chat with party members.

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Quests/Bosses

Once you are in a party you can do quests. If you want to play on your own you can also create an empty party. The best thing about quests is that they give you exclusive loot. You can start a quest by using a quest scroll, which costs gems, but developers are kind enough to give you scrolls at least once.

Guilds

Guilds are places for people with common interests to hangout at. HabitRPG has large, active and friendly community. You can find guilds for designers, developers, runners, you name it.

Challenges

Challenges are tasks created by a community for a guild or tavern which users can subscribe to and complete for given amount of gems. Challenges on guilds use guild gems to give out as prize. Once you subscribe to a challenge it adds habits, to-dos or dailies (depending on what the challenge was for) to your account. After a given time the challenge creator decides the winner.

The Hall

The hall features contributors and backers to HabitRPG.You can also become one by contributing to the code on GitHub or backing it on Kickstarter.

You can enjoy HabitRPG on the web, Android or iOS. You can also find lots of extensions and third party apps for it.

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HabitRPG is a fun and fresh way to manage your habits and tasks. Try it and tell us in the comment about your experience and how do you like the concept of gamification. Also tell us any other method or app that you like or use to manage your tasks.