Fitocracy is a website designed around the concept of
gamifying fitness. For those of you who don't have the time to watch the videos, essentially it's taken the concept of points and levelling up and the psychology behind that and applied it to a real life activity, in this case exercise, in order to engage people more about something a lot of people just aren't interested in due to the effort. No word if you can exercise with hookers, then kill them and get your money back
in real life but I'm confident Jack Thompson is standing by if that is in fact the case, disbarment or no.
To give you a less rambling explanation, Fitocracy offers this:
- XP! For every activity you perform you will be awarded with XP, which leads directly to
- Levelling up! Yes, that's right, levelling up. There might not a light or noise when it happens and you may not be able to select perks or notice any immediate difference but one day you're going to saunter over to the fridge and rip the door off its damn hinges. You will not have meant to do this.
- Achievements! No, they don't mean anything here either. Which is why you MUST GET THEM ALL.
The point is, Fitocracy represents something big, the concept of applying video game techniques to the real world for positive benefit which could revolutionize the way we approach things in the future, though I'm probably just being dramatic.
Which all boils down to one thing, really. I don't have an invite, I want an invite, anyone got an invite? Send me an invite.
Oh also what do you think of the concept and what this means for future implementations of the concept yada yada send me an invite