Habitica's mechanic for habit growth

Written: December 4, 2019 at 7:59 PM
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Another interesting game mechanic from Habatica. I noticed that the fully established habits (like taking my supplements for 15 days straight), no longer give me experience points. I still get Gold, but no XP.

This is interesting because it requires you to keep adding new un-established habits to your list if you're to keep leveling up. Since you still lose health bit by bit and can only gain it back via a level-up, it means that you have to keep pushing yourself by upping your game.

Subtle game mechanics that incentivize the right kind of growth in habit building. I'm curious how the designer came up with these specific mechanics.

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