Kaizen

Getting Started

From an empty bucket to a playable board in a few minutes.

Open a bucket and add a Game Builder view. With no game yet, you have three ways in — and you can always change everything afterwards.

Three ways to start

Start from a preset

The fastest path. Pick one of the seven presets — a fully-wired board you tweak from there. Habit Loop for a daily routine, Life Board for a bounded journey, Quest Board for a branching campaign, and so on.

Describe it to the AI

Type a prompt — "a 30-day fitness board using real gyms" — and the generator drafts a board. You review and tweak it before it saves; the AI proposes, you approve. See the AI generator.

Create a blank game

Start from an empty canvas and add spaces yourself from the palette.

You can also fork any board from the Discover tab (/games/discover) — 20 curated templates spanning all seven presets.

The workspace

Palette, canvas, and inspector

Three panes, Elementor-style:

  • Palette (left) — space types grouped by category, plus presets and the AI prompt. Drag a space onto the board.
  • Canvas (centre) — the board itself. The renderer follows the board shape (linear track, grid, ring, hex map, real map, branching graph). Click a space to select it.
  • Inspector (right) — configure the selected space. It opens on a single When → Do → Then pane; the full tabs are behind Advanced.

The gear button opens settings (Rules, Economy, Pieces, and the board theme); the Edit / Play toggle switches modes.

Your first game in five steps

Pick a starting point — a preset is easiest.
Link a todo — select a todo space and set its todoId to a real bucket todo.
Set a reward — give it some XP, or leave the preset's defaults.
Switch to Play — start a session.
Complete the todo — in the game or your todo view; your piece moves and you earn the reward.

Completing a linked todo fires its space everywhere it's referenced across your boards, but XP is awarded once (first-board-wins by default). See Playing.

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