Can an immersive world RPG better gamify your life?
Hello everyone, apologies in advance for the long post,
I'm trying out a (what i believe to be) new/less common spin on gamification apps. Instead of the usual gamify your tasks -> earn rewards -> level up etc... , I want to create a virtual world (like a PC game) with towns, characters, storylines and branching consequences where the actions you take are in real life.
This might be a bit confusing so let me give you some examples:
This is the world:
The world of Rysing is inspired by multiple worlds of fiction, such as Naruto, Ghibli style environments and world of warcraft to name a few, where you have country/zone -> town/settlement -> smaller locations.
You then are an adventurer in this world and you have to physically travel to these places, for example if you want to go from "Hearthgate" (settlement) to "Warden Roads" (small location) you need to physically walk 2000 steps using your phone/watch as a tracker.
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This is inside a settlement:
Where you can go to the tavern and talk to the innkeeper, or interact with the locals in order to help them and to understand a bit more about Hearthgate through:
- Campaigns: These are bigger questlines that you go through to help an npc with a problem. One such example is Marcus up in Warden Roads who hasn't shown up in the tavern for 2 weeks and by talking to the innkeeper he tells you that he's worried about Marcus and if you could check on him. You then start the marcus campaign. i'm not going to spoil it, but it envolves a lot of real life walking.
- Moments: These are ephemeral smaller quests/interactions with npcs to make the world feel alive. One such example is you helping an npc fix a broken roof that has been destroyed by a storm. And you help them by doing a real life action that resembles the in world action (in this case you would spend 10mins organizing or tidying a room in your house).
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And i want these npcs to feel alive, see here how a conversation with the innkeeper looks like:
You have choices that grant different answers etc...
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I just wanted to share this with you guys to see if it might be something that you would be interested in.
If it is, the app is free to test currently on testflight (ios only) here:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/r4htb6SU
And feel free to join our discord as well if you want to chat with me about the idea or vision:
https://discord.com/invite/wrkfrbhsnW
Thank you!