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Events and seasonal calendars

Two different things have similar names here: events are ones you create — time-limited campaigns with their own tasks and rewards. Seasonal calendars come ready-made from us, for Advent and Halloween.

Your own events

An event is a time-limited campaign with its own name, emoji and colour — and with tasks and rewards that exist only while it runs. A holiday special, moving week, grandma's visit.

A wizard walks through four steps:

1. Name, emoji and colour
2. Bonus tasks for this event (optional)
3. Shop rewards for this event (optional)
4. Adding rewards and setting the period

At the start you choose: begin immediately, or set a start date — tasks and rewards are then unlocked automatically on that day. With an end date the event ends by itself the following day, and open event tasks and rewards disappear. You can also end it by hand at any time.

An event comes with a banner animation in the kid dashboard — shooting stars, confetti, pumpkins. It sounds like a detail, but it is what makes an event recognisable as an event to a kid in the first place. A preview shows you how it will look while you create it.

Events are a Premium feature.

What this is actually good for

The most effective use is not the big celebration but the small time-limited campaign against the flat spot: a system that has been running for two months loses its pull. A week with three extra bonus tasks and one special reward brings the attention back without you changing anything about the underlying system.

The seasonal calendars

For special occasions there are ready-made calendars that we build:

Advent calendar in December — one door a day with a reward. Doors are scratched open ("wipe the snow away!"), which turns out to be the actual fun for younger kids. A progress bar shows how many doors are open, and with several kids the turn rotates — "today it's Lisa's turn."

Halloween in October — a ghost hunt in stages: tap the spooky creatures, avoid the sweets. Once a day, plus a bonus on 31 October independent of the stages.

Both bring exclusive cosmetics, new avatar transformations and bonus levels in the mini-games. They are included with a Premium subscription or available individually as one-time purchases — so the Advent calendar can be bought without a subscription.

Turning them on and off

In the season settings you can switch each calendar off individually. The kid then sees a clear note ("your parents turned the Advent calendar off") rather than an empty or seemingly broken calendar — important so it does not look like a fault.

For the Advent calendar you can also adjust the rewards behind individual days if the defaults do not suit you.

Without a season everything runs as usual

Seasonal calendars are an addition, not a component. If none is active — switched off, no Premium, or simply because it is March — PiggyTask works unchanged. Nothing is missing; there is just nothing extra.

What else Premium covers is in Premium and the free-tier limits.

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