Community

HabitRPG has always had strong roots in its community.

The kickstarter
Early in 2013 Tyler started a kickstarter to start full-time development on some core features of HabitRPG.

HabitRPG is an Open Source project that always encouraged contributions from players.

The initial goal for funding was set to 25,000 US$. This was exceeded to an amount of 41,191 US$ by 2,817 people showing interest in the project. Accordingly, the involvement with the community was always a part of HabitRPG.

Contributor Gear
The introduction of contributor levels and special Armour and Rewards the involvement of the community really took off.

Many people were motivated to contribute to all the different parts of HabitRPG

Tales of Uncommon Valour
Gamification of productivity is one of the main drivers behind HabitRPG.

The tales of uncommon valour were created as a challenge for habiteers. This introduced another level of gamification using RPG-like creativity. The rules are very straight forward:

Delight your fellow inHabitants with your powers of storytelling! Convert at least one Habit accomplishment into an epic tale and post it in the Tavern (or post a link if your tale is too long for Tavern chat) tagged with #TalesOfUncommonValor (or Valour).

A panel of judges will choose the winner based on style, humor, and cleverness in converting everyday happenings into epic-but-still-recognizable events.

Rules: Must be your own writing; must refer to something you checked off in Habit during the time of this challenge. Multiple entries are allowed.

The stories are collected in a tumblr blog, if permission is granted.