Indiana Jones in real life: A game concept - An interview with @andrarchy

You might have heard people say occasionally that "life is a game", or even that you can choose your own game in life - some people choose to accumulate more money, to get a better credit score, some choose to bring happiness to others wherever they can, to make beautiful things, to seek enlightenment. There are many ways to play this game, but with the way certain people act, it seems that they're not aware it's a game. It's a wild ride, and people seem to not be aware that it's only a ride.

What if we could somehow make it explicit that we are playing a game, and create goals and rewards as we go along? What if making the game explicit allowed us to step outside of ourselves - maybe give ourselves permission to do things that we wouldn't normally? What would we gain from that? How would it change our perspective - making us feel more fulfilled, content in the knowledge that we, in many respects, have nothing to lose by playing?

In this episode, Kurt ( @churdtzu ) interviews Andrew Levine (a.k.a. @andrarchy) and finds out some of his ideas on how we can gameify reality, and gameify our lives, giving us that vital perspective, and allowing us to discover other parts of ourselves in a safe environment. Andrew calls his idea "Indiana Jones in real life" - running around the world, trying to find different artefacts, and at the same time constructing the rules of the game, and perhaps formulating puzzles for other players to solve.

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