A few folks this week pointed ChoreWars out to me. If you haven't heard about it, it's a site where you and others can create characters and chores and receive points whenever you complete tasks. Once you have enough points, you move up to the next level and start on the next set of chores. I find this very interesting because you are turning the boring things in life into a game, causing you to want to complete them as quickly as possible to earn your points and to keep moving forward.
Peter Merholz posted about this a few months ago. He looked at the book, Convergence Culture and the example of the Survivor community making games out of the show by trying to figure things out before it came on television. You can see that even more recently with folks who follow Heroes and Lost.
What happens if you turn things into games, if I create a 'game' for my day where I will earn some sort of point for every accomplishment? Or maybe I can turn the projects I'm working on into levels and gain experience points for each.
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