Family health inspires mobile health game design. HealthGAMERS is pleased to introduce you to Greg Kendall, President and CEO of Kendall & Son Solutions LLC. Greg has begun a family game development business which has plunged straight into mobile gaming for health. His company’s first game...

The ability to experience and react to realistic patient encounters that require quick clinical responses is crucial for doctors in training. This experience is now available with Top Doc, a new iPhone medical quiz application developed by Elsevier and video game designer Legacy Interactive. Top Doc...

Exergames of the future. HardCORE Swimming is an Exertion Game prototype that combines the use of a Wii Fit balance board, Wii controller and nunchuk to swim through a shark-infested sea while collecting treasure.  In our last healthGAMERS interview we talked Floyd Mueller, an instructor at the University...

Australian Exertion Games take exergaming to the next level. I first found out about Floyd Mueller and his creative “Lecture 2130” at the University of Melbourne, Australia from the Games For Health listserve.   Mr. Mueller is doing some pretty amazing stuff with his computer game design...

Tis the season for competition. A Humana press release this morning revealed the three winners of the InsertCoin Game Idea Competition which began last summer.  The goal of the competition was to establish what gamers are looking for in health games and ultimately create better health games for consumers. ...

Better Food Pyramid games afoot? When I first started healthGAMERS we were in the process of creating a new online health game based on the food pyramid.  At that time, I was researching what was out there.  My conclusion: a call for better Food Pyramid games.  Someone at the USDA must have been reading...

Following North America, health games are gaining popularity among IT professionals and public populations in Europe.  Main events are organized throughout the old continent, and complementary or challenging solutions are emerging transforming this regional market in a true valuable world market. As...

I’m always looking for the latest and greatest in health games, especially one with great characters and a thought out interface.  Look no further than MyFriendQuest which is available for download at the end of this month. Helping children recognize emotions with games. MyFriendQuest is an interactive...

Beginnings of a mobile health game movement? In my last post on mobile phone-based health games, I gave you an overview of Mindless Eating Challenge, a game by Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of their health games research initiative. ...

Mobile health games for sale? For a long time I’ve wanted to do a post all about mobile phone-based health games.  After all, visit the iPhone App store and you’re bombarded with thousands of choices.  From the complete works of Plato to real estate prices, there’s a little (or a...