Household Management

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Is your flat a mess? Your office a wreck? Are dishes, clothes, and food detritus littering your environs? Are you and your office- or flat-mates unmotivated to do anything about the situation? You need Chore Wars which gamifies tidying! This clever and free online tool allows users to define chores and achieve experience points (XP) for completing them, which makes the effort translatable to real life. For example, among a group using Chore Wars, the person with the most XP for the week can be rewarded by getting to choose the group’s movie or some other such pre-determined reward. 

Although Chore Wars is not an open source software in the strictest sense of the phrase, it does boast an active community forum where suggestions are made for new additions to the programmer and users communicate with each other. There has been considerable talk among users in the forum about making Chore Wars open source or alternatively a for-pay site. Unfortunately, the main programmer has been largely absent from the forums of late. However, this does not diminish the functionality, usefulness, and fun of this resource!

Source links:
http://www.chorewars.com/
http://www.chorewars.com/help.php#why