LifeXP
Have you ever thought "I levelled up!" when you learnt something new? With LifeXP you can show your friends when you gain experience in your favourite skills.
Quick Overview
- Set up skills and tasks, e.g. Learning French and listening, reading and writing within that
- Define how many points each task is worth, 1 hour of listening practice = 2 points
- Update tasks as you work on them: 3 hours listening
- Level up tasks every 100 points, and skills every 1000 points!
- Show your friends what you're learning and how your skills are improving!
Install on Facebook
Details
Using LifeXP, it is possible to add various skills that you are currently learning, and tasks associated with those skills. Skills are usually broad things such as Learning French or Getting fit. Tasks have a score associated with them as well as a starting number of points. Examples of tasks are:
- 1 hour of violin practice = 2 points
- 1 hour of exercise = 1 point
- 1 Dickens novel read = 10 points
You are free to define tasks and their rewards however you like, after all it's only for fun.
Once you've created a few tasks, update the number of points you have by adding updates on the number of hours you've practised etc. LifeXP will automatically work out how many points that is and adds it to your total.
When you reach a certain number of points in
Development
LifeXP is a small Facebook application written using Ruby on Rails and the RFacebook plugin. Being one of the first Rails projects I wrote, the code isn't as clean as it could be, but I would appreciate any comments you have on the source, which is available below.
The source code is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. If you use significant parts of the source, please give me credit. Also the code may not be used for commercial applications.
