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Happy New Year's Eve everybody!
Seeing as how diligently we play this Hay Day game, so diligently playing that many of us have neglected our real life by various degrees (mine is the highest degree :() , I have been wondering if we could gamify our real life so that when we put down the device and go do something else, we are still playing another part of a game. Do you have any idea how this can be done?
Strawfairy
Ummmmm, I think I will still be here.
I think this is a question for the Doctor.
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Hopefully you will one day reach the point that you are not so addicted to the game. It had me in it's stronghold for many months. I lived, breathed and ate Hay Day. I would try and time my chores or errands around Tom. I had it bad. I don't hire Tom anymore or buy diamonds. Now I control the game instead of it controlling me. Balance is not easily achieved, but it is very liberating!Quote:
Originally Posted by Strawfairy
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Originally Posted by BrightSunnyDay
You mean it's hope for the rest of us!!!!
Many times I have wished that I could just queue up my real-life tasks and let them run. But alas, my real life is not a HayDay cake oven.
~powdermonkey
I have this problem with most games, Hay Day is just my latest addiction. I love doing quests/tasks in games so it helps me to see chores and errands as quests for which I'll get a reward when I've completed it :D Even if the reward is just a nice cup of tea or more time gaming.
Thanks for your responses! I was wondering WHY I like to play games instead of do work, and if I know WHY, I can try to put that attractive element into my work so that I will do work as diligently as I play this game. Playing this game is not necessarily easier than doing work (unless your work is to sell insurance). It is psychology that makes me prefer game over work. My work is taking care of the home and sort the paper. I have no patience for this "work". In the past I have used some tricks to make myself wash the dishes:
Trick 1 -- I imagine my kitchen sinks full of dirty dishes as earthquake sites, and I imagine myself a rescue team member. I think of those small items like spoons and forks as children, and I will pull them out from beneath, wash and "save" them. This way, my conscience will make me continue washing.... till the last big piece, which I REALLY dislike washing. But I tell myself, I have to get this fat lady out of here or else the opera can't end. And I just don't feel all right to save everybody but leave somebody behind. This trick still works; I tried yesterday.
Trick 2 -- I pretend that it is not my kitchen sinks; it is Strawfairy's kitchen sinks. My self-perceived image of Strawfairy, which used to be "a good person with a hard life" comes to mind, and triggers my sympathy. I ask myself: Wouldn't you be willing to help her out and make her lucky? The feeling of helping someone I love makes me do the work willingly, and the work is thus done. I will then go take a tea in the living room, feeling satisfied that I have helped "a good person with a hard life" and made her lucky. Later on, when I re-enter the kitchen to put away the tea cup I have just used, a magic happens here: I see the clean dishes on the kitchen island, and my feeling is "WOW! While I was busy helping a good person with a hard life, someone came and washed MY dishes!" LOL! This trick doesn't work so well now because I no longer think of myself as a good person with a hard life. My self image now is "someone plays too much".
Excuse my English with wrong tenses. Don't call the doctor; I am okay.
Ah another whovian, as my daughter would say. Bow ties are cool!Quote:
Originally Posted by ilovehayday
i like how you think. Anything that makes the drudge of repetitive household chores more interesting catches my attention. I think is is very creative to consider taking the hay day perception into everyday work. Think I will give it a try tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration!Quote:
Originally Posted by Strawfairy
Ha ha cool!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiggerr129
I like "allons-y!" myself.
oh! What good fantasys i just gotta try that out cuz damn those dishes is soooo boring! Or come up with a own one with u as inspiration!! Thanks for the tip!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Strawfairy
There is a site called Chore Wars the my family used a few years back. You create a character, and then build your chore list, assign point values to them, and then you go on quests. Every family member can have their own character, with their own points and loot.
You can have it assign random chores, or you can go on specific quests yourself. You can earn prizes, and everyone in the house can see how many points they have, etc. Many families would use the point to give real world benefits, like "if you get 50 points this week, we will go to the movies", that sort of think.
we eventually stopped using it because it got a little cumbersome to do all the book keeping. I'm surprised they don't have an app, actually. I would start doing this again in. A heartbeat if it were just a bit easier to manage all the lists.
Omg! This is brilliant!!! I just checked out the website--this may be the answer to my prayers--well my prayers were actually to have a "houseboy" clean for me everyday wearing a bow tie and tight jeans, but this works too! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo
Thanks CL!!!!!
Lol, mosey, I'm with you on the houseboy thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mosey
Wow, I actually did have a faint hope that since CheddarLimbo is smart enough to invent the Scorched Earth Challenge, he might be able to invent something that helps us work and play well. He does have something that may be helpful. I hope I will at least get some ideas from Chore Wars, or modify it to suit me. Thanks a lot, CheddarLimbo!
Good idea cheddarlimbo but my problem is im single and live alone (hence i got so much time to play)
ooh mosey! What an awesome idea! Thou i might have problem wich focusing on the game.... He he he.... Btw ive missing our chatts lately... Hope everything is oki?!
Your mind games in regard to dishes reminds me of a rhyme:
Know all the questions, but not the answers,
Look for the different instead of the same,
Never walk when there's room for running;
Don't do anything that can't be a game.
This is from a young adult book The Changeling, byZilpha Keatley Snyder.
I used to use this to challenge myself creatively, ie trying to find a way to make something I had to do into a game, so I could do it, while still following the dictates of the rhyme. I quit doing this, oh, shortly after I left college I suppose, uncomfortably close to 25 years ago. Thank you for reminding me, I do so need that in my life again.
Grumbul, thank you for that quote - it's given me a lot to think about today. I'm a learning specialist and we're always thinking about what engages and motivates people. xQuote:
Originally Posted by Grumbul
If anyone comes up with a definitive (and easy to adhere to) solution, please let me know. My real life is on a shelf, a very large, cluttered, heaving-almost-to-breaking-point one. I really need to put down the bloody iPad!!!!
My job means I've had to cut down a little bit....not by choice though :( and im not on the forums anywhere near as much as i used to be!..which I'm not happy about lol, so im not sure how easy it is to kick the Hay Day addiction...but im missing everyone