Gamify your life

More people, businesses, and organizations are realizing the benefits of gamification apps in improving lives. Discover which apps made it onto our list.

According to these gamification systems, you can level up your productivity and get more done in record-breaking time.

Gamify Your eLearning With These 7 Techniques. Gamification is a fantastic way of keeping your learner’s attention and increase motivation.

Productivity Hack: Gamify Your Tasks. The ultimate geek guide to turning fantasy productivity into real life productivity. Guest post by Ryan McRae illustrates the role-playing game concept in every day tasks and projects for momentum in getting stuff done! #productivityhackideas #productiveflourishing

Time to inject some fun into things. Captain Morgan's game!

At the start of this gamification experiment, I had a detailed system of time-tracking, progress standardization, a full list of “activated abilities”, and more. The system was fun at first, but…

Going to the gym for an hour is 2 red points. Calling my mom is 1 blue point while calling Aunt Deborah is 5 blue points because, honestly, Aunt Deb's sort of a pain to talk to and sometimes she says crazy inappropriate things. Cleaning the bathroom is 15 red points. Otherwise I would never do it. This is the plan to…

The experiment began at 11 a.m. in my bedroom in Brooklyn. I bought an app from the iTunes store called EpicWin, a fantasy-themed game designed to improve users' lives by motivating them to accomplish real-world goals with virtual-world rewards. Before starting the game, I had to pick and customize an avatar that would represent me in the digital landscape of EpicWin. I chose a cadaverous warrior named Calcium Facebone. He held a blunt mallet in one hand. "Add new task," the screen read.

The best way to achieve big goals is to reward yourself for progress each step of the way.

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Ryan McRae. In most video games, especially in…