Decision Tree

App Exploration for Exploration Apps!

Have a burning desire to try out a location-based gaming app? Do you get confused by the amount different options out there? Well, have no fear as this decision tree will give you some ideas of what games will suit your needs!

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Decision Tree

question 1

Are you hoping to use the App for PHE purposes (Interacting with self) or Ecology (Interacting with environment) purposes?

PHE

Ecology

PHE

question 2

What do you want to achieve?

To MOVE!

To BUILD Habits!

To PLAY!

MOVE!

QUESTION 3

How do you want to move?

Walking

Exploring

Running

Walk

QUESTION 4

What engages you?

Plants

Animals

Space

Fantasy

RUN

QUESTION 4

Do you like zombies?

Brainsss...

Nope.

EXPLORE

QUESTION 4

What are you into?

Jurassic Park

Minecraft

Harry Potter

Pokemon

BUILD

QUESTION 3

What kind of Habits do you want to build?

More Productivity

Less Stress

More Focus

PLAY!

QUESTION 3

What kind of game do you want to play?

Financial

Logistical

Ecology

QUESTION 2

What do you want to do?

Hunt for stuff!

Learn about Local Ecology

Hunt

QUESTION 3

What's the most important to you?

Nature!

A bit of Both!

Story!

Ecology

QUESTION 3

Where do you usually look?

Up!

Down!

Animal lovers

Fitness Pets - The less serious fitness tracker

This chill game turns walking into energy that powers your pets! You can raise them and then play games with them. It's great for those who want motivate to exercise, but not too much.

Plant growers

Pocket Plants - Idle Garden, Grow Plant Games

For all you plant lovers out there, this is a relaxing game about growing plants with the energy you collect from your walks. It's cute to boot!

Fantasy adventurers

Fitness RPG - Walking Games, Fitness Games

This is another one of our favorites! Raise levels of your heroes by exercising, and complete a fun, light storyline of taking back fitland from the evil forces. A bit more strenous, but still fun!

Space astronauts

Walkr: Fitness Space Adventure

This game gives your walks an otherworldly feel to it as you power your spaceship to find wonderful creatures and fantastical planets. There's even a social factor!

zombies!!

Zombie Run

This is one of our favorites! Put on earphones and run away from zombies. Collect various tools to upgrade your base and enjoy a cool post-apocalyptic story.

Not zombies.

Fit for Battl‪e

This (Apple only) running game turns your regular runs into an epic fantasy adventure. With items to collect and ways to level up, you'll want to continue your habit of running!

Jurassic World: ALive!

Jurassic World Alive

This is the game for you if you are into Jurassic Park/World! Explore your local community and collect dinosaur DNA to create your own! There's also a battle component for the more competitive gamer.

Minecraft Earth

Minecraft earth

This game allows you to enter the Minecraft world! Explore your local community and collaborate with other players to build amazing thing! There's also mobs!

POkemon Go

Pokemon Go

The classic game that started it all. Pokemon GO almost needs no introduction. Go around your community and collect pokemon, participate in raids, and battle with other trainers!

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite

Enter the fantastical world of Harry Potter! Explore your community to level up spells, gather potion ingredients, and fight the dark wizards.

Productivity

EpicWin - RPG style to-do list

This app turns even the most mundane task into experience points for you to level up with. If you inculde the battles and the loot, it creates a fun gameplay loop that can motivate you to do your chores!

Focus

Focus Plant - Stay Focused, Study Timer, Focus App

This game helps your focus through using study timers to make raindrops to restore life to your land. It's cute, it helps with both work and study, and it creates strong habits for focusing on the important things.

Stress Management

Meditation Game

The meditation game is simple. You control a small ball of light (you) to collect energy by tilting your phone. This game can be played anywhere, but is best done in a location that relaxes you.

Landlord

Landlord Tycoon Business Real Estate Stocks Game

This game gives you a bit of money to start off with and lets you invest in local land and collect taxes! It's great for those to want play with money and their local community!

Resources

RESOURCES GAME - A GPS MMO Tycoon / Economy Game

This logistical game gives you options to find local deposites of game resouces and manipulate them to get money.. and to find more deposites! Great for those logical thinkers out there.

Geocaching

Geocaching

Geocaching has been around for a LONG time, with good reason too! Hunt for caches in your local community and explore the ecology of your environment. You can also create your own hunts!

Adventure Lab

Adventure Lab®

Ever wanted to go geocaching, but wanted more story? This app allows you to geocach with adventures, and search for puzzles and stories around your community. This one has our recommendation for learning!

EarthQuest

EarthQuest - Scavenger Hunt and Geocaching

This game allows you to add an RPG factor into Geocaching. You can still hunt for caches in your community, but you also get items to make it easier! Great for beginner cachers!

Hyperlocal

Hyperlocal Weather (Dark Sky Powered by) & Radar

This is an app that is not a game in the traditional sense, but is able to interact with local weather patterns. This can create some cool opportunities to play games via google maps with an additional local weather component.

picturethis

PictureThis: Identify Plant, Flower, Weed and More

While not necessarily a game in a traditional sense, this allows us to create scvanger hunts to education about local flora. This powerful tool could be used for games in multiple ways.