Asanagame: The Ultimate Task Battle Royale

Hey Asana wizards 👋
At iDO, we thought: “What if Asana wasn’t just a productivity tool… but also a video game?”
Well, we made it happen — and it’s wild.

We played Asanagame, our Asana productivity game, during our remote Spring after-work party. Picture this: Zoom call chaos, laughter, strategy, sabotage — and a timer ticking. It was everything a team-building activity should be. 😄

🛠 How to Set It Up (a.k.a. Build your battlefield)

1. Create a new project and call it something epic, like 🎮 Asanagame.

2. Add three single-select custom fields:

• Column 1
• Column 2
• Column 3

Fill each with all participants’ names, in a totally random order to spice things up. 🎲

3. Create a people custom field called Points and add it to your Org’s library.

4. Create a second project called Results, and add the Points custom field there.

5. Set up a powerful Rule in the 🎮 Asanagame project:

• When → Any of Column 1, Column 2, or Column 3 is changed
• Check if → All three columns are set to the same participant (build one condition box per person)
• Do this →
• Remove the task from the project
• Add the participant to the Points custom field (one action box per person)

6. Fill up your game board! We added 5 Rounds, each with 50 tasks (250 total). 🏁

7. Multi-home all tasks in the Results project so the scoring can work its magic.

8. Create a Dashboard in Results with charts:

• One per round
• One overall

Use Points on the X-axis and Task Count on the Y-axis. Filters by Round help if you’re competitive like us. 😎

🕹️ How to Play

• Each player’s mission:

  Set their name in all 3 columns of a task.

• Once all 3 fields match your name → 💥 Boom! You score 1 point, and the task disappears.

• You’ve got 1 minute per Round, so move fast! ⏱️

• Watch out for other players — they might be editing the same task as you! 👀

🚫 Rules of Engagement

• ⏳ 1 minute per Round.

• 🙅‍♀️ No multi-selecting (it’s a game, not a spreadsheet).

• 🤖 No AI allowed to fill in fields for you (nice try, though).

• 🛑 Hands off the Points field — it’s sacred.

🤪 Why It’s So Fun

The chaos is very real.

Imagine trying to score while someone else is changing the same fields at the same time. It’s like digital tug-of-war. 🥵

Tasks vanish right before your eyes. Competitors mess up your combos. People scream (in joy… or despair).

It’s beautiful. It’s savage. It’s Asanagame.

That said — fair warning! Playing all together on the same project at the same time did cause a few hiccups.

Some of us got briefly kicked out of the project or saw weird sync issues 👻. It didn’t stop the fun, but it definitely added a little extra spice to the game. So… consider it part of the challenge 😅

Let us know if you try it out or want help setting it up!

May the best taskmaster win! 🏆🧙‍♂️🔥