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EpicWin aims to turn your real-life tasks into a social game


Given the amount of iPhone and iPad apps coming out these days, I'm not all that interested in getting excited about an app before it comes out. There's already plenty of games and apps available now, so worrying about not-yet-released apps isn't all that important. That said, this app called EpicWin is gaining quite a bit of attention -- it's a very originally designed to-do list masquerading as a game that gives points for accomplishing things in real life.

If this idea sounds familiar, it's because we've seen it before -- Booyah Society was supposed to be a game that rewarded you for real-life accomplishments, and there have been a few other apps like it poking around. Most of them haven't worked very well -- the issue has always been that there's no validation, no proof that you've done what you said you did in real-life. But EpicWin has some solid developers behind it (the folks that worked on Little Big Planet for the PS3, and MiniSquadron for the iPhone), and a very intriguing art style and tone, so maybe it'll be more intriguing than what we've seen along these lines in the past.

EpicWin is "coming soon" to the App Store -- we'll keep an eye out for it, and let you know when it's out.

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Ian

"EpicWin has some solid developers behind it (the folks that worked on Little Big Planet for the PS3, and MiniSquadron for the iPhone)"

I should point out here that Rexbox.co.uk, behind EpicWin, did the motion graphics for the introductions of LittleBigPlanet on PS3 and PSP, plus contributions to the visual look of the application. Not to take anything away from them, but that sentence made it look like MediaMolecule - the actual developers of LBP - were somehow involved.

July 11 2010 at 3:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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reson8er

+1 for clarification. I looked that up myself and found out moments before reading your post.

July 12 2010 at 12:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andrew

Is that "coming soon" the same coming soon as the Star Wars Hoth game?

July 11 2010 at 10:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Maldaen

They said it's in beta testing and should be released in a month on their Facebook page.
Speaking of their FB page, you should see all the people there crying that it doesn't have a confirmed Android released date yet. Pathetic, like they should have expected anything different.

July 11 2010 at 2:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
knewsom

This NEEDS to Sync up with Facebook. GENIUS GENIUS GENIUS! I'm all over it if it's halfway easy to use...

July 10 2010 at 10:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve

Who cares if it's easy to cheat? As far as I can tell, it's not online-based. You're just playing a single player RPG. If you cheat, it doesn't hurt anyone.

On the other hand, if you don't cheat, and it works as a motivational tool, then it's great.

July 10 2010 at 6:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Grant

I'll probably get rated down for this, but that game looks really retarded. Also, imagine how easy it would be to cheat.

July 10 2010 at 5:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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