The Keep:Digital Addicts Anonymous

The Gaming Addicts Anonymous (GAA) guild is a guild for those who spend much more time playing computer games than is good for them, and want to break the habit.

If you think something should be added, removed, or changed on this page, please notify me via wiki message wall, HabitRPG private message, or chat in the Gaming Addicts Anonymous (GAA) guild. Or if it's a minor change (spelling correction, updating a link, adding a new challenge, etc.), feel free to edit this wiki page yourself. Also, if one day you find I haven't logged into HabitRPG for over a month, someone else should probably take care of this wiki page (and become the new guild leader).

The following is just a list of useful on-topic links. The lists are in alphabetical order. If you add new links, please try to insert them in the right place!

Challenges
This list doesn't just contain the challenges within the guild, but all the on-topic challenges I could find in HabitRPG.

You can only see the challenge details if you are a member of the guild the challenge is in. (Just clicking on the guild links here doesn't make you a member. You have to join by using the “Join” button in the guild, or from the guilds list.)

If an anti-addiction challenge is in a generally pro-gaming guild, a gaming addict might not want to join that guild permanently (especially if all the gaming talk there triggers their gaming urges). Instead, you could join that guild, join the challenge, then leave the guild again. You will automatically leave all challenges in that guild, too, but will be offered the option to keep the challenge tasks.


 * Caught in the Net: Escaping Internet Addiction and Online Distractions in the Tavern
 * Control Gaming Challenge in the Gamers Union guild
 * Freerice Challenge in the Tavern (If you have to game, how about supporting the UN World Food Programme by playing an educational quiz game?)
 * Get off tumblr! in the i'm probably on tumblr right now guild
 * If you can't let it go, at least keep your Online gaming addiction to an hour maximum each day in the Gaming Addicts Anonymous (GAA) guild
 * No Gaming For the Month of April 2015 in the Tavern (Similar challenges are planned for the following months.)
 * Stop lining the coffers of the evil gaming empires in the Gaming Addicts Anonymous (GAA) guild

Guilds
A list of various HabitRPG guilds that might be helpful in this context.

Gaming/Internet Addiction-Themed Guilds

 * Gaming Addicts Anonymous (GAA)
 * Interneters Anonymous

Gaming/Internet-Themed Guilds with at Least One Anti-Addiction Challenge
But if all the gaming talk is too much of a trigger for you, don’t join them permanently!


 * Gamers Union
 * i'm probably on tumblr right now

Guilds About Games That, like HabitRPG, Can Actually Be Useful
But judge for yourself and use with care!


 * Geocachers Guild (a game that takes you hiking, or at least walking around outside, in real life)
 * Ingress Players (a game that takes you sightseeing in real life)
 * Kotoba Miners (Japanese language classes in Minecraft)
 * I haven’t found Zombies, Run! (a game that takes you jogging in real life) mentioned in a guild here yet.

Game Developer Guilds
Maybe you want to tell them to make more non-addictive and/or useful games? Who knows, if you have constructive ideas, they might even be thankful for the inspiration!


 * Game Designers
 * Gamification
 * One Game a month
 * RPG Maker VX Ace Gamers
 * The Worldwide Society of Let's Players

Blocking Software
Most of these links are copied from the list in the Caught in the Net: Escaping Internet Addiction and Online Distractions challenge.

Myself, I’m using the Cold Turkey pro version and am very happy with it.

Computer-Wide

 * Cold Turkey blocks selected websites (and, in the C $ 14.99 pro version, selected executable files - like offline games - and all websites except selected ones), freeware for Windows
 * Freedom blocks the whole internet (but can be stopped by rebooting), $ 10 app for Windows, Mac, Android, ...
 * SelfControl blocks selected websites, or all websites except selected ones, freeware for Mac

In One Browser Only

 * LeechBlock blocks selected websites, or all websites except selected ones, free add-on for Mozilla Firefox
 * Productivity Owl closes selected websites, or all websites except selected ones, after a short while, free extension for Google Chrome
 * StayFocusd blocks selected websites, or all websites except selected ones, free plugin for Google Chrome

Self-Help Websites

 * GamerWidow.com (for significant others of gaming addicts)
 * Online Gamers Anonymous