Life is an alternate reality productivity app(to-do list)/game where your progression in the game is dependent on how many tasks you complete in real life. TL;DR An experimental AR game whose progress is fed from a fully featured and useful productivity app. need feedback. available for beta enrolment right now at lifeapp.in for iOS 8 and up. Getting straight to the meat of it. Earth is in complete control of the alien race and you are the commander of the resistance against it. Yeah the setting might sound cliched at its face value but there is a lot more to the experience. Completing tasks in real life give your reward points you can use to initiate attack operation on an alien strong hold continent. What follows is series of counter attacks (2-3) by alien forces (over a period of couple of hours IRL) to reclaim its territories and you have to spend your resources wisely to defend continents. This includes selling equipment scavenged from battlefield or deploying it against the alien counterattacks, buying intel to deploy counterattack measures efficiently, healing your fighters and investing credits in raiding alien shipment for more defense equipment. So its a game that focuses on short bites of gameplay with cringe worthy decision making and in game resource usage, for results you only get a while later when you have to take another set of decisions. Completing tasks in the app gives you reward points In the game select your fighters you want to use for the attack (uses one bar of earned reward points)Tap on the continent you want to attack After attack completion in 40-60 minutes. You can sell damage munitions scavenged for credits. Hold and drag an item to deploy it to a continent to defend it against an impending counter attack by aliens Buy intel by spending credits to deploy items more accurately You can also invest in an alien raid for more defense items. Healing injured fighters also uses credits. The todo/reminders part of the app is fully featured and functional with unique and useful features, check it out at lifeapp.in The beta for the app is available right now by signing up at the bottom of lifeapp.in requires iOS 8, although final release will work on iOS 7 and up, requires testflight app available for free on iOS app store. Yes i need your email to send you beta (apple requirement) but all i can ask you guys is to trust me with your email addresses because i take this article to the heart Short backstory. I took a short iOS development course in the last semester of my college (I'm an electronics engineer btw!!) and hadn't released/worked on an app for almost six months before a vague idea for this ARG came to my mind. So it was for like doing something productive in real world and that being your allowance to play more in the game. And after going through a couple of ideas what I came up was an little RPG game where this allowance would be credits that were used to play the game like the obligatory IAP credits purchases which give you more playtime in a ton of free to play games (only that your IAP would be your real word progression in the productivity part of the app). BUT THIS SUCKED because it was too disconnected from the reminders/productivity experience and the player might end up spending a disproportionate time in one part of the app compared to the other and being only single faceted gaming experience for some or reminders/productivity app experience for others. So another vague idea (as they always do ) happened when i played XCOM: EU on iPhone which has asynchronous multiplayer (you don't have to wait in game for enemy turn to end, you are notified later instead), and i thought i could make a strategic asynchronous experience like this in my game where the focus is on wisely using the reward points you earned by completing the tasks (in IRL) in the reminders app over several bouts of strategic gameplay (over a period of couple of hours), where your loss otherwise is in a way loss of real world progress. So after working on it for over 1.5 years and a bunch of game mechanics revamps later id like you guys to check out Life and tell me what you think.
