I Want Pokemon To Gamify My Entire Life

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Pokemon Legends: Arceus looks amazing and Gen 9 is likely right around the corner, but if you ask me which Pokemon game I’m most excited about, it’s definitely Pokemon Sleep. There’s nothing I love more than Pokemon besides sleeping. They might be even, if I’m being honest.

We don’t know much about Pokemon Sleep yet, but the concept is promising enough. I hope Pokemon takes the concept of gamifying healthy behavior and runs wild with it. If it were up to me, there’d be a Pokemon game for every aspect of life: sleep, hygiene, fitness, diet, chores, work, socializing - you name it, I want to play a Pokemon game about it. I’m old enough to know that the passive benefits of living a healthy life don’t mean shit to me. I need Pikachu to tell me I’m doing a good job. Give me Poke-points for being a good boy. I’m serious.

This kind of thing already exists, just without the Pokemon themes. Productivity apps like LifeRPG and Habitca turn the monotony of everyday life into a game where you earn experience and level up by completing tasks, while exercise games like Google Fit and Fitbit turn working out into a competitive PvP experience. Actual fitness video games like Ring Fit Adventure and Wii Fit take that concept even further, while VR is leaning heavily into fitness with apps like BoxVR, VirZoom, and VZFit. People who play games are already intrinsically motivated by progression loops and achievement scores, so naturally those same gameplay systems can be used to help people live healthier lives. It’s been done plenty of times, but it’s never really been done by Pokemon.

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Pokemon Go is the obvious example, but other than tracking distance traveled for egg hatches, it isn’t a