Features
Everything in the tavern
Questlog is a party RPG that lives inside Jira Cloud. Here’s how the game works, with the default numbers. Admins can tune most of them.
Lives on the issue
Jira stays the workspace. The game shows up where the work happens, and stays out of the way.
- An issue card in the Jira sidebar shows what each action on this issue is worth to you.
- A gentle nudge suggests the next useful step, like a comment or a worklog.
- A native Jira flag pops a few seconds after XP lands.
- Your party’s progress and the boss, right there on the card.
- The full game lives on one page under Apps → Questlog.
Try it: click an action on the card.
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Questlog
XP for real work
Outcomes over activity: finishing work earns the most, and busywork can’t win a Gold chest. Each action pays once per person per issue, ever.
| Action | XP | Daily cap | Pays when | Pantry ingredient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comment | 8 | 6 | Your first comment on the issue with at least 15 characters | Coffee Bean |
| Log work | 15 | 5 | Your first worklog on the issue of 15 minutes or more | Hourglass Sand |
| Complete issue | 30 | 5 | A non-bug issue reaches Done (credited to the assignee) | Rubber Duck |
| Resolve bug | 35 | 4 | A bug reaches Done (credited to the assignee) | Glowshroom |
| Move status | 5 | 6 | Your first status change on the issue | Sticky Note |
| Create issue | 8 | 5 | You create the issue | Sticky Note |
| Issue started | 8 | — | Someone else starts an issue you created | Sticky Note |
| Attachment | 8 | 5 | Your first attachment on the issue | Sticky Note |
Instant and final
XP lands the moment Jira reports the action. Deleting a comment or reopening an issue never takes it back.
Daily caps
Past a cap the work still counts in Jira, just without XP. “Daily limit: Comment 6/6. The work still counts.”
Only real people
Automation rules, apps, bulk changes and imports earn nothing. Neither do Jira Service Management portal customers.
Party expeditions
Every sprint, the party sets out together. Two objectives decide the chest.
Effort: keep your usual pace
The XP target comes from the party’s own recent history: its typical XP per member-day over the last six periods, times the days people are actually around, at 95%. A steady team makes it most sprints. No treadmill, no raise after a good run.
- Away days (“Gone fishing”) take that day out of the target. The party only sees “away”, never a reason.
- Periods follow your linked Scrum board’s sprint, or run for a fixed 1, 2 or 3 weeks.
- Day boundaries use the party’s home time zone and working days.
Chests
| Objectives met | Chest | Gold | Items | Renown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neither | Consolation crate | 15 | — | — |
| One | Bronze chest | 30 | 1 Common or Rare | +3 |
| Both | Gold chest | 120 | 1 Epic + 1 Rare | +10 |
Everyone who contributed on at least two days of the period gets the same chest. At period close each member sees a recap: the chest, the objectives and next period’s target with the reason for it.
A boss made of your sprint
The second objective is a real outcome, measured from Jira. The boss shows counts only, never issue names.
Sprint Boss
For parties linked to a Scrum board. HP is the number of issues in the sprint at the start. Issues added later spawn Scope Creep minions (+1 HP each), and removed issues take HP away. Every issue that reaches Done deals damage. Get 80% of it done and the boss is defeated.
Queue Beast
For fixed-length periods. Its HP comes from how many issues the party usually finishes per member-day, times the days people are around. Issues completed or resolved by party members deal damage.
Grum’s Daily Brew
Grum, the bear behind the bar, sets a new recipe every day: four different ingredients, in order. The party cracks it together.
- A shared pantry. Every rewarded Jira action adds its ingredient, plus 3 free Candle Wax each day.
- Shared tries. 3 a day, plus one for each member who contributed that day, up to 6.
- Gold and silver pips for right-ingredient-right-slot and right-ingredient-wrong-slot.
- Hints. One free (“no Coffee Bean today”); a second one reveals a slot for 5 gold.
- Solve it for a +10% XP buff for the party until midnight, gold and XP for everyone who helped, and Renown.
- Miss it and the brew streak pauses. It’s never lost.
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Coffee Bean
Comment -
Hourglass Sand
Log work -
Glowshroom
Resolve a bug -
Rubber Duck
Complete an issue -
Sticky Note
Move, create or attach -
Candle Wax
3 free each working day
Toasts
A thank-you with a drink attached. Raise one from the issue card to someone who helped on that issue.
- Everyone gets one free Standup Stout a day. The giver earns 5 XP too.
- The receiver sees who, which drink and the issue. The tavern’s Crier just says “Priya raised a Mead to Deniz”.
- Up to 3 toasts a day, one per issue, and two a week to the same person, so it stays meaningful.
| Drink | Cost | Receiver XP |
|---|---|---|
| Standup Stout | Free once a day, then 6 gold | 10 |
| Synergy Spritz (zero-proof) | 5 gold | 12 |
| Merge Conflict Mead | 9 gold | 20 |
| Decaf of Despair | 4 gold | 8 |
Your tavern
The party’s home. Renown never goes down: earn it from chests, defeated bosses, solved brews, toasts and rounds for the house, and it unlocks rooms with perks.
| Room | Renown | Perk |
|---|---|---|
| Trophy Wall | 10 | Defeated bosses are mounted, and past expeditions can be browsed. |
| Brewing Cellar | 20 | The second brew hint is free. |
| Glowshroom Garden | 35 | One extra random ingredient in the pantry each working day. |
| Bard’s Corner | 50 | Bard’s Ballad Ale joins the menu. |
Decorations
Members chip in gold toward a decoration, and it’s installed once fully funded:
- Suspiciously Comfy Rug 60 g
- Party Banner 80 g
- String of Lanterns 120 g
- Haunted Jukebox 180 g
- Portrait of Grum (Flattering) 240 g
- Candle Chandelier 300 g
Prices are set for a party of four and scale up with bigger parties. When the room is done, the party can keep buying rounds for the house for more Renown. The Crier sums up the day: “Deniz, Priya and 6 others finished 14 issues today.”
Characters and gear
One character per person: a cat, bear, frog or bunny with your choice of fur and cape. Change your look any time in the Mirror.
Three classes
Scribe for people who leave helpful comments, Timekeeper for people who actually log their hours, and Bug Hunter for people who fix the thing, then explain why. Each starts with its own kit.
45 items, 3 slots
Head, armor and weapon. Common +5%, Rare +10% and Epic +15% XP on the item’s action; Legendaries give +10% on everything. Gear bonuses count for your level only, so party targets stay honest.
The Armory
Browse every item, try anything on your own character, and equip what you own. Rarer items unlock at Lv 3, 8 and 15: early drops wait in the vault.
Levels and titles
- Lv 1 Intern of the Realm
- Lv 3 Ticket Squire
- Lv 5 Backlog Ranger
- Lv 8 Sprint Knight
- Lv 12 Scrum Sorcerer
- Lv 16 Release Warden
- Lv 20 Legend of the Board
Each level-up gives 10 gold and an item. After Lv 20, every 3,000 XP adds a Legend star. Your level is private unless you choose to show it on issue cards.
Fair play and privacy
Inclusive and non-competitive by design. Questlog is a team game, not a performance review.
- No leaderboards, no public individual numbers and no “not yet” labels.
- Personal XP, gold and daily caps are visible to you alone. Your level is private unless you opt in.
- Admins see aggregates only: party totals, never per-person data.
- Time logged is never shown, anywhere. Shared feeds never show issue keys or titles.
- No Jira content is stored: no comment text, titles, descriptions or attachments.
Who sees what
| Data | You | Your party | Admins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your XP, gold, daily caps | Yes | No | No |
| Your level | Yes | If you opt in | No |
| Character look and items | Yes | Yes | — |
| Away days | Yes | “Away” only | No |
| Brew tries | Yes | Name and time | No |
| Party totals and tavern | Yes | Yes | Totals |
| Time logged | Never shown | ||
Platform
Built on Atlassian Forge for Jira Cloud. No external servers, and it never changes your issues.
Runs on Atlassian
Game data is kept in Forge-hosted storage within your Atlassian environment. No external data egress, fonts bundled.
Read-only in Jira
Questlog listens to Jira events and reads sprints for the boss. It has no permission to edit issues.
Admin settings
Jira admins create parties and tune the rules: XP, caps, bug types, targets, prices and more, all validated on the server, with “Restore defaults”.
Permissions
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