Let EpicWin Put The Adventure Back Into Your Life

SMALL TALK…

EpicWin by Supermono Ltd

Type: Utility

Size: 22.9 MB

Price/cost: £1.79 (two unique and limited edition characters can be brought for 59p each if the user desires)

Updated: 7 January 2011

Official Site: www.Epicwinapp.com

“EpicWin is an iPhone app that puts the adventure back into your life. It's a streamlined to-do list, to note down all your everyday tasks, but with a role-playing spin. Rather than just mentally ticking off your chores, completing each one improves and develops your character in an on-going quest to level-up, gain riches, and develop skills.”

INTRODUCTION…

A survey I found on my ventures estimates that more than 75% of people will break their New Year's resolutions within three months of making them, and nearly 1/3 of people will break them just one month into their new regime. I can't say that the rest of the year has such a bright horizon either, with approximately 90% of all people failing their goals as a consequence of either poor management, poor motivation and not knowing how to go about achieving such goal. It might be a health goal that you're trying to achieve such as losing weight. Or it could be that you want to stop smoking cigarettes; not only improving your health and well-being but saving a considerable amount of money as a result, hitting two birds with one stone. It could be a relationship objective, such as increase the quality time you spend with your other half, children, family and friends. Whatever your goal might be, careful management and great motivational help will give you the best possibly chance of completing your goal. Are you in the 75% that is currently lacking motivation, or in the 90% that is considering quitting or maybe putting off your goal for the time being (“I will start my healthy regime tomorrow, I will I promise” you procrastinator). The producers and developers at Supermono Ltd have definitely given a great shot at solving this problem with a utility to-do app called EpicWin.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION…

Browsing through the App Store (as you do when your bored) I was very intrigued to find a utility to-do app that claimed “Make being organised as much fun as gaming with EpicWin the to-do list app with an RPG setting.” Now, I am a geek; so much so that I have a designated section for all my beloved RPG game such as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, Fallout 3 and my favourite Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. At only £1.79 I was really interested in seeing what the app was capable of achieving not only for myself but you, my readers. Let App Advisor do all the wasted buying and downloading so you don't have to.

MY ADVENTURES…

I am welcomed initially with the typical character selection screen named Birth of a New Adventurer. As of the latest patch 1.3, there is currently a total of five different characters a user is able to choose, two of which are special addition Warrior and Treeman Berzerker that have an extra price tag each of 59p; some extra options that might become too appetising for your demise. I am greeted next with several introductory goals that give the user, in this case me, an idea on the possibilities and capabilities of what this particular to-do app is able to achieve. More than anything I think an effective way of showing all the nooks, crannies and extra settings EpicWin has on offer; a dummies help guide of what to do. I was guided in creating my first goal; “Create first review for App Advisor, it's about time!” and set my point's marker to 300. The point's system is rather self explanatory allowing the user to set a value as low as 50 and as high as 300 depending on the epicness, importance and difficulty of that goal. When a goal is completed, these points are converted into experience (allowing you to level up your character RPG-esque style) and progress along a path where you can collect gold and rare loot which you can actually boast on the likes of Twitter and Facebook after acquirement if you so wish to do so. My first piece of loot was Face Cream of Vitality; “the only face-cream on the market to contain Vitalglobulons ™”. I have been left wondering what my next goal might be so that I can use the to-do app EpicWin as a means of motivating me to achieve it (and gain levels and extra loot), watch this space.

          

In somewhat more of a nutshell; “Rather than just mentally ticking off your chores, completing each one improves and develops your character in an ongoing quest to level-up, gain riches, and develop skills. Doing the laundry is an epic feat of stamina so why not get stamina points for it?! 

The more you do, the further you will journey and the further you go, the more loot you will uncover and the more your character will level-up in skills and stature. And unlike traditional video-games you'll then benefit from a tidier home, a more organised working day or succeeding in whatever other life goals you wish to achieve.”

MY THOUGHTS…

It's absolutely brilliant, an exciting to-do app but with a RPG-esque twist! EpicWin is a great way to organise goals in a fun environment where achieving even the smallest of tasks feels somewhat better and more rewarding than ‘ah well, at least the hoovering is done now'. A tad silly and extreme I admit, but I have actually started going out of my way to find goals now that I wouldn't usually think of partaking in. Just the other day actually I fixed a dodgy toilet roll holder in my bathroom which reluctantly should've been done months before; I obtained an extra 100 points and travelled an extra 7 miles nearer to acquiring my next piece of rare loot, exciting times! £1.79 is a small price to pay for a to-do app that only reaps you benefits; becoming more popular with the other half and getting things done. If you want to add fun to your boring and monotonous to-do lists or want a playful way of organising your goals, EpicWin is definitely an app the Advisor recommends.

     Score: 4.5/5

                                                                   

SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT…

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