Good news, everyone! I've come up with a tentative plan.
Between my two jobs, I am utterly unable to to handle running a game for the time being. However, I've found a possible analog solution which might work for some of us. I've been playing with it today and it's working pretty well so far.
The idea is to build squares by completing tasks. I started with a square note pad (post-it-notes would work well, or any square paper). I divided the square into four smaller squares. From there, I cut some of them in half, and some of the halves I cut in half again (into strips). Like so:
I went for strips rather than smaller squares because they're easier to write on.
Easy tasks go on the smallest strips, followed by medium, then hard on the larger squares. Super-hard tasks can be twice that size. As they're completed, they're laid out to form squares. For now, I've set a rule for myself that each completed half-square buys me a session of video games, but you can set whatever rules you want for yourself. A full square is either 16 easy tasks, 8 medium tasks, or 4 hard tasks.
Now I'm thinking about possibilities for this. The squares could be used to make pictures, for example. You could take a picture (with blank white on the other side of the paper), cut it up into task papers, and flip them over to write the tasks on them. As you complete the tasks, you fill in the picture. The bonus here is that you could mix up the pieces and randomize which task is on which piece, leaving holes in your image that will push you to fill in the blank spaces in the image.
Another possibility is to treat the squares like pixels. Working together, we can build pictures with our completed squares. This would require some software, but I'm thinking it can be done very simply. If we start a Google Spreadsheet on Google Drive, set all the cells to be square-shaped, and add everyone as editors to the document, then whenever we finish a full square, we can go on the document and color one of the squares, anywhere on the sheet. It could become an interesting community artwork, as well. Since the sheets are basically infinite, anyone could just scroll off somewhere and create their own artwork (and I think we can agree to leave such things alone and not vandalize them), and then we can designate a large area as a community zone.
What do you guys think? How many people would be interested in a spreadsheet like this? Eventually I'd still like to do an RPG, but at the moment I just really don't have the time. Sorry about that. : / But eventually, for sure!
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