Hearty Haven is a wellness-based mobile game designed to provide motivation and guidelines for those wanting to improve their lifestyle. From exercise goals to healthy eating, the application analyses the players' health data and helps them achieve their desired goals.

Before we begin, let's play a really short game of Never Have I Ever. Put a finger down if the statement applies to you:

If at least one of these applies to you, then don't worry, we're in the same boat as you. A lot of people, regardless of age and gender, have the goal to live a healthier lifestyle. Starting the journey, isn't exactly the problem, the biggest difficulty is to actually keep going on the journey, in other words, to maintain the lifestyle. Gyms and workout classes are usually really crowded in January. In February, you'd start to notice that there's less people coming. By March, it looks like half of the earth's population has been snapped out of existence.

It's difficult to maintain a high motivation during the process of building a new habit. In fact, it takes an average of 66 days to build a habit. We want to provide a solution that users can use to maintain their motivation and find healthy living easier. Over the course of three months, we conducted research on the topic and developed a solution that we find to be effective in solving the problem regarding lack of motivation.

Motivation means "the general desire or willingness of someone to do something" while ammotivation is a word that is used to describe the opposite of motivation. Below, we have created a chart called the Cycle of Ammotivation to illustrate how motivation works hand-in-hand with the habit building process.

How can we make healthy living fun? How can we build motivation and discipline for people? After pondering about these questions, we decided to incorporate gamification into our solution. We conducted a literature research with 25 peer-reviewed articles regarding gaming, wellness, and motivation. Below are three interesting facts that we've gathered from our research.

"That's cool and all, but exercise and wellness apps already exist." That is true! There are a lot of credible applications out there that helps their users improve their health. Even a number of them have started to incorporate gamification elements such as points and benefits. However, what makes our solution different is because we are not creating a wellness application with gamified features, but we are creating a game application that is centered around health and wellness.

Our goal when it comes to the design of the application is for it to be relaxing to the eyes while still being intuitive. We want to minimize the need for users to click on too many buttons just to get to a page, so we made sure to eliminate unnecessary pages and kept the layout minimalistic by eliminating unnecessary buttons.

After a lot of research, conceptualization, and sketching, we came up with Hearty Haven, a relaxing world-building game where players earn in-game currency through completing wellness related tasks. It provides its users with personalized guidelines and goals for people with different health conditions and health goals. So, whether a user's goal is to lose weight, exercise more, or to eat more healthily, the application can cater to everyone.

HOMESCREEN

Users will be able to see their world and level-up recommended resources.

GOALS PAGE

Goals are separated into daily and weekly goals. Weekly goals are more difficult but offer better rewards

MARKETPLACE

Players can level-up existing buildings or purchase new buildings and decorations for their world.

HEALTH SURVEY

Players are required to fill in a brief health survey. This will help the application personalize the health goals.

To address important questions regarding the product and future steps, we have compiled the questions below: