First Novel Published to Accompany a Health Game
The novel Nanoswarm: Invasion From Inner Space was published today, a work based on the NIH-funded multi-million dollar health game of the same name. Nanoswarm is a first person, role-playing videogame adventure in healthy eating and exercise. The game is designed to change nutrition and physical activity behaviors in children for the prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Why publish?
Archimage, developers of Nanoswarm: Invasion From Inner Space, decided to release the book for publication so the story can be enjoyed while the public awaits the clinical trial results from researchers at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine. Data is scheduled to be released by the end of 2009.
The book was originally written to help the developers fully understand the backstory and characters appearing in the game. It turned out to be such a good story that co-author Richard Buday felt it shouldn’t gather electronic dust on some hard drive. It needed to be in print.
The story.
The book sells for $12.95 and will soon include an educational workbook. Here’s what to expect from the novel:
Life in the year 2030 was almost perfect. War, crime and hunger were history. Microscopic robots had eradicated pollution. Scientists were on the verge of curing disease. Then, one day, people all over the world started getting sick. And no one knew why. That’s when you, a 12-year-old Trainee Second Class, joined the world’s leading research team. Wings, this is your story. How will you choose?
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