I rebranded the community name from "Games of Life Engine" to "Systems of Life Engine". I always felt that the previous name was too limiting - it put too much attention to the "game" part: gamification, game techniques etc. Although gamification is an important part of the equation, it shouldn't be placed in the foreground. It's rather a background detail. Here is a meaning of each words in the name: System - a group of interrelated, interdependent elements or components that work together as a unified whole, often with a common purpose or function. Life - the focus is put mostly on self-development, that is "single-player" systems that you use for your own benefits. Higher-level "multi-player" systems can also be part of this community but not right now. Engine - there are several system patterns that works. You can apply these patterns to create a system with a specific goal e.g. losing weight or master certain skill. Finding and describing such system patterns is an important goal of this community.

I reactivated the community. The community contains the following courses in Classrom section (far from being finished - I will be improving them steadily when I will have some inspiration). - Gamifying Life Theory - very abstract articles how gamification of life can be divided: task games, metric games and what gamification method should contain to be motivating & effective - System Designs - overview of some life gamification systems, pages & apps - Rewards - how to gamify granting yourself rewards for doing things in real life

I made a video demonstrating game/system described in my previous post

There are interesting gamifications of life around BuJo. BuJo mean 𝗕𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 - a method of personal organization written in a physical journal. One is a BuJoRPG developed by Emerald Specter. You can see a description of this game in this PDF. 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲 Scattered Gamification - the game mechanics don't directly balance each life area. You select what you want to improve but the game doesn't specify what exactly it needs to be. In reality you could also use the game for only one part of your life (e.g. fitness) which would fall into the category of limited gamification. 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗵 More shallow gamification. Mechanics of the game are simple and there are not much dependencies of each element. 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 - Musts (habits with a penalty) - Dailes (habits with rewards) - Achievements (metrics rewarded with boosters) - Quests (levelled tasks) 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗽 Filling a journal page with numbers and creating a new page. 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 - Only In-Game Rewards - the game incentivises to work purely based on in-game rewards: reaching milestones and new levels. - The only urgency motivation in the game comes from so called **Musts** category - if an item from this category is not done HP decreases. Decreasing HP below zero results in losing in the game. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 - Musts reminds constantly about doing annoying activities - Dailes installs new habits - Quests and Achievements encourage you to make progress in given domains 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘀 - Good way to install new habits - Very pleasurable game for people who finds levelling and hitting new milestones motivating - Easy to understand; doesn't require difficult computations 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀 - Not for people who don't find leveling game technique motivating - Low complexity can lead to different abuse of the system (e.g. doing only one particular type of activity at the cost of others)

One more experiment with Bulleted Journal RPG. This time I selected the Todoist app that I subscribe to. The app allows you to create labels for Musts, Dailies, Achievements and Quests and there is a description property where I can set how many HP/XP will I gain/lose when doing/not doing a given task. There is also one recurring "task" that is actually the Player info - current level, HP, XP etc. This approach is a total gamification for me - so I not only track my work but also other important activities. Hopefully this time the burden of preparing a game every day will be greatly decreased.