{"id":13650,"date":"2016-02-10T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2016-02-10T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:04:21","slug":"how-a-neopets-type-game-could-teach-people-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/how-a-neopets-type-game-could-teach-people-to-save\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Neopets Type Game Could Teach People To Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/totoro8301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/totoro8301.jpg 830w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/totoro8301-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/totoro8301-768x370.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Over on Reddit someone came up with a bright idea in the appropriately named lightbulb subreddit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User NikhilSax suggested a game that requires users to take care of a virtual pet. Every time users spend money on the pet, that money would be transferred to their savings account.<\/li>\n<li>Another user suggested that different pets be offered. Those who pick a dog would be expected to take it out on walks. Their smartphone&#8217;s GPS sensor would ensure they left the house. Thus the game would get them to exercise in addition to save.<\/li>\n<li>Cats would be a step down in that they don&#8217;t need walks. Then things like snakes and lizards and finally&#8230;a\u00a0pet rock. Where the only thing you have to do is to pay $10 to buy the rock, thus adding $10 to your savings account.<\/li>\n<li>For those who aren&#8217;t so concerned about their savings accounts, a user suggested that any money that users pay to feed a virtual pet, then be used to pay for a real shelter animal&#8217;s meal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire discussion thread over <a href=\"https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/Lightbulb\/comments\/43ljd4\/a_virtual_pet_that_requires_the_same_level_of\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/Lightbulb\/comments\/43ljd4\/a_virtual_pet_that_requires_the_same_level_of\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Reddit someone came up with a bright idea in the appropriately named lightbulb subreddit: User NikhilSax suggested a game that requires users to take care of a virtual pet. Every time users spend money on the pet, that money would be transferred to their savings account. Another user suggested that different pets be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/totoro8301.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13652,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions\/13652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}