I’m very happy with this article I wrote on Walking Meter: Unification ~ Become the Ruler of the Warring States by Walking, a pedometer-based Sengoku strategy RPG. It’s easily the raddest game I read about this week.

JC, who helped a lot translating details for the piece, and I discussed at length about our wishes to see RPGs further integrated our lives, giving us the motivation and routines we need to get so many unmanaged tasks taken care of.

Exercise RPGs, finance RPGs, and chore RPGs are just the beginning. How about a hygiene RPG? Imagine an MMO in which the high-level players were actually the least gross people. Or an RPG for dealing with social anxiety? Or an RPG about blogging about RPGs?

tags / pedometer / sengoku / rpg / walking meter / import / ec