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Looks very interesting! One thing: > If your health drops too low, you die and lose some of the progress you've made. I think when losing some of the progres

Looks very interesting! One thing: > If your health drops too low, you die and lose some of the progress you've made. I think when losing some of the progress, I would just give up on the game. Real life would already be negative, so I wouldn't need something negative to happen in the game as well, so the easiest improvement at that point is to stop the game :).

oneweekwonder 12y ago
I did not read the article, but a way to counter that is for a motivation boost. Allow the player to make up for it the next day. From a MMORPG pov you would have just got killed and your loot(progress) would have dropped, you now spawn at the nearest town and have a day to get your loot back or lose it. And so maybe in courage you to hit the ground running faster the next day, because you know you are dead.
toyg 12y ago
> I think when losing some of the progress, I would just give up on the game. I don't think anybody really dies while he's actually playing, in the sense that you can easily salvage your character at any point by just deleting all tasks. The point of the game is to motivate you into doing chores; a low health bar should give you the motivation to reassess your priorities, get a reality check, and rearrange your tasks so that they can be dealt with more realistically. If you can't do it right away, take a rest in the Tavern and come back later with a better plan and a simpler approach: chuck all the "deep red" items, and start with ONE OR TWO VERY SIMPLE TASKS you can reliably achieve. Once you've got your health back, get more adventurous and start adding hard stuff back in, slowly. In most RPGs, if you can't defeat a monster, there is no point in immolating yourself; it's better to run, hide, grind out easier enemies, and come back when you've leveled up. The real-life equivalent is a honest reality check about what you can and cannot do right away.

oneweekwonder 12y ago

I did not read the article, but a way to counter that is for a motivation boost. Allow the player to make up for it the next day. From a MMORPG pov you would have just got killed and your loot(progress) would have dropped, you now spawn at the nearest town and have a day to get your loot back or lose it. And so maybe in courage you to hit the ground running faster the next day, because you know you are dead.

toyg 12y ago

> I think when losing some of the progress, I would just give up on the game. I don't think anybody really dies while he's actually playing, in the sense that you can easily salvage your character at any point by just deleting all tasks. The point of the game is to motivate you into doing chores; a low health bar should give you the motivation to reassess your priorities, get a reality check, and rearrange your tasks so that they can be dealt with more realistically. If you can't do it right away, take a rest in the Tavern and come back later with a better plan and a simpler approach: chuck all the "deep red" items, and start with ONE OR TWO VERY SIMPLE TASKS you can reliably achieve. Once you've got your health back, get more adventurous and start adding hard stuff back in, slowly. In most RPGs, if you can't defeat a monster, there is no point in immolating yourself; it's better to run, hide, grind out easier enemies, and come back when you've leveled up. The real-life equivalent is a honest reality check about what you can and cannot do right away.