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Self-Help and Self-Care Games: A 31 Day Reading Challenge to Understand The Types of Gameful Experiences These Represent and How to Design, Develop, and Play Them

Self-Help and Self-Care Games: A 31 Day Reading Challenge to Understand The Types of Gameful Experiences These Represent and How to Design, Develop, and Play Them

Boost your awareness about self-help and self-care by learning about games, their design elements, and parallels between games and our lives.

2023

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The “Instead Of” Game: The Briefest but Probably the Most Crucial of All Self-Motivational Games

An honest, kind, helpful, and fun approach to switching from upsets to joy and well-being

7 min readNov 18, 2021

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Everything Is a Game; We Just Don’t See It That Way

And how we can

5 min readAug 24, 2021

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Everything Is a Game; We Just Don’t See It That Way

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Goals in Games and Life: How Really Different Are They?

Not as much as we might believe

5 min readFeb 20, 2024

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Goals in Games and Life: How Really Different Are They?

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The Gameful Philosophy of Life

… And How We Are All Experimental Philosophers

3 min readDec 13, 2023

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The Gameful Philosophy of Life

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Our Lives are Specific Types of Games

Actual Real-Life Role-Playing Games and Choose Your Own Adventure Games

2 min readNov 12, 2023

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Our Lives are Specific Types of Games

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I Am Not Jumping From One Task to Another. I Am Following My Fun Detecting Antenna.

The clue is to be aware. All. The. Time. And if I stop being aware, I become aware of that too and return to playing the Awareness Booster…

3 min readAug 17, 2023

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I Am Not Jumping From One Task to Another. I Am Following My Fun Detecting Antenna.

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Exploring the Definition of and Ways to Navigate Life

And how games can help us with that

4 min readAug 4, 2023

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Exploring the Definition of and Ways to Navigate Life

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Where Is the Best Place to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?

The answer to this question is paradoxical. It is both limitless and exclusive.

2 min readJun 13, 2023

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Where Is the Best Place to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?

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When Is The Best Point in Time to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?

Short answer: Always and now.

2 min readApr 27, 2023

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When Is The Best Point in Time to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?

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Who Should Turn Their Habits and Life into Fun Games, and Who are They Best to Look up to?

As with all paradoxical things in our lives, the answers to this two-fold question might seem both simple and complex.

5 min readJan 20, 2023

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Who Should Turn Their Habits and Life into Fun Games, and Who are They Best to Look up to?

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Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

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Life gamer, life coach, author, engineer; originator of Self-Gamification — an art of turning life into fun games → optimistwriter.com

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