Saritha Mantry

Saritha Mantry

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TCTGame Backstory: How a WhatsApp Group Became a Multiplayer Habit Game

A little backstory: It was January.
Everyone around me was making New Year s resolutions. And, like always, I knew I would start something with full excitement and then leave it halfway without even realising it.

But this time, I thought of trying a small experiment.

I created a WhatsApp group with six friends.
We each set a few goals for the month and posted what we had done every day. The rule was simple: miss once and receive a warning; miss twice and you were removed from the group until the next month started.

Not every day was perfect, but on difficult days, we wrote a short reflection to stay in the loop instead of quitting completely.

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