How to Never Stop Playing Your Writing and Publishing on Medium Games
The game(s) is (are) never over.

If you look closely at this loop, you will see that it applies to anything you are up to, especially if you want to turn it into games. Even turning life into games itself has the same loop. Thus, this gameplay loop applies also to any mini-game you play when you write on Medium.

While writing this article, I played many mini-games. Both connected to writing this article, but also other, such as assisting my children in doing their tasks during homeschooling, household chores, which I could do in-between, drinking water, having a break, reading e-mails and personal messages on social media, congratulating friends to their birthdays, and many more.

I tried to concentrate on each one separately I took on to play. It didn’t always work, and I didn’t excel in each of them as I would prefer, sometimes being in a hurry and thinking that I wasn’t good enough with what I was doing. But reminding myself of the simple gameplay loop above helped me tremendously to relax and succeed.

So each of the mini-games I played while writing this article worked perfectly if I looked at how I felt, what I wanted or needed to play, where I wanted to go in any particular mini-game, how I could do that. Then I made that step and assessed (measured). And then I looked, went, and assessed again.

As my day progressed, I realized that a game flows and I feel successful if there is movement, if the story of my day evolves further, and that I am the author of this story.

I was briefly upset that I wasn’t progressing with this article when my children asked for my help. But then I chose to concentrate on the homeschooling game and gave myself a chance to enjoy it. My six-year-old daughter ended up finishing most of the tasks she had in her exercise book for two days in just a few hours. Now, she is happily busy with a learning game on the computer, and I have time to finish writing this article.

I’m super happy that I had this wish to search for a gameplay loop for writing on Medium. While doing so, I discovered that it equaled the fundamental playing loop of having fun with what I am up to right now while turning it — be it a Medium article, household chore, homeschooling, or relaxing — into fun games for myself.

Now, all there is to say is to wish you to enjoy designing and playing your multiple mini-games in your daily game collection. And to let all of them, including writing a story on Medium, bring you immense joy. At the same time, I hope you enjoy the utterly simple and tested through centuries game loop (even if it might not have been formulated this way until now) — look, make a step, and assess. Then look where you want to go, go, and recheck your excitement barometer. Then repeat.

In other words:

Look. Make a step. Assess.

Repeat. And have fun.
['Victoria Ichizli-Bartels']
['Writing Life', 'Ideas', 'Self-awareness', 'Ｍedium', 'Gaming']