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- Tyler Renelle is the creator and co-founder of Habitica, an app that turns your everyday tasks and habits into a video game
- We talk about the road from an idea to the successful Kickstarter of Habitica
- Habitica is very complex, but uses strategies form games to ease users into creating new habits
- Many people claimed to hold the secret to effective habit-forming, but Habitica sampled from many different games to create something that fits a variety of people
- Tyler turns a bad World of Warcraft habit into the catalyst for self-improvement
- Google Deepmind and the curious way that games play a role in human progress
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+7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people.
Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.
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Music by Creo
Epilogue by Creo is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.