Jenny got a FitBit for her birthday and she has continued to be very diligent with it. Im rather proud of her. At one point I decided to try and join her, even though I didn't have my own Fitbit. I downloaded the app and began putting in my details.
On top of that I found a companion app called FitRPG, a very simple app that turns your exercise habits into an RPG game, converting your exercise into health points and equipment. You could take on encounters, fighting bosses and stuff in a numbers game that you don't really get to see.
Its really basic though. No interaction or interface, more like one of those strategy games that are a series of countdown timers.
Then I had a thought. They're doing it around the wrong way for me. Don't turn the exercise into a game, that just means you have to find motivation to exercise so you can continue with this simple game. Turn the game into an exercise.
Say you're playing a big game, like Fallout 3, or Skyrim. You'll be spending a good few hours sloughing through levels and missions and such. But generally, you wont be moving much. But then you turn on a function, and now every half hour the game stops and wont continue playing until you, i dunno, do ten pushups or situps, or do twenty star jumps. Or if you've walked for too long, like taken 1000 steps, you have to run in place for two minutes.
I've thought of doing this myself, without forced prompt but thinking I would do it between missions, but I'm incredibly lazy. So forcing the subject would be much more effective. I want to play the game, and if I cant play it unless I close this popup and do my ten situps.
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