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Insurance Companies Using Health Games
Posted by mlazarus in Making Games on 04 13th, 2009 | No Comments
For prevention (and treatment).
At the Games for Health Conference last year, Humana announced its newest venture, Humana Games for Health (HG4H), an online world where users can play video games to keep their minds and bodies fit. Their hope was to engage consumers through the use of a most popular...
NIH Funds $3.4M Dental Health Game
A game that makes kids want to brush their teeth.
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research branch of the NIH is jumping on the health games bandwagon. They recently awarded $3.4 million Small Business Initiative Research (SBIR) grant to Firsthand Technology, Inc and the Dental Public...
What Makes a Great Health Game Great – Part 8
Part 8 of 8.
I cannot believe we are to part eight of eight in our series! It’s been quite a journey, but here is the last piece of the puzzle. Great Game Tenet #8: a great health game needs to be intelligently designed.
Designed to do amazing things.
This is an excellent tenet to wrap things...
What Makes a Great Health Game Great – Part 7
Posted by mlazarus in Editorials, Making Games, Nutrition, Prevention on 02 19th, 2009 | No Comments
Sounds good to me.
Continuing on with our series, today’s great game must is music to my ears. You guessed it, Great Game Tenet #7: a great health game has great sound. This isn’t just your run-of-the-mill sound effects. Sound includes the sfxs, music, and voices. All are crucial.
Sounds...
What Makes a Great Health Game Great – Part 6
Pow, zap, boom.
One of the many benefits of health games versus traditional health education materials is instant reinforcement and immediate feedback. When a player does something correct, the game immediately gives the player a reward, such as a visual effect or fun sound. Great Game Tenet #6:...
What Makes a Great Health Game Great – Part 5
Posted by mlazarus in Editorials, Making Games, Nutrition, Prevention on 02 16th, 2009 | No Comments
Gamer vogue.
The style, the color, the flare! An important element to any game is the art assets. This gives the game its feel, its personality. Great Game Tenet #5: great health games have great art.
Art versus content.
Some, like Whyville’s founder Dr. James Bower, believe that good art...
What Makes a Great Health Game Great – Part 4
Posted by mlazarus in Editorials, Making Games, Nutrition, Research/Theory on 01 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Can’t play just once.
Game creators, both heath-related and mainstream, always hope that their game will have that gotta-play-again feeling. What’s the point if someone plays it once and that’s it. A game has to have good re-playability. Great Game Tenet #4 is a no-brainer: great...
Student Exergame Makes GDC Finals
Exergaming is king.
When students are trying to win major game design competitions using physical activity as a major component, you know exergaming has really arrived. Every year the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) holds a competition for students as part of the Independent Games Festival...
What Makes a Great Health Game Great – Part 3
Get out the grill.
At the core of every health game should be great content; there should be real meat there. And appropriately so, Great Game Tenet #3 is: a great health game has great substance. Some would say this is easy since, for the most part, health games have a learning or behavior-changing...
What Makes a Great Health Game Great – Part 2
Posted by mlazarus in Disease Management, Editorials, Making Games, Nutrition, Research/Theory on 01 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Haven’t I seen this before?
Continuing on with our ten-part series about how health games can utilize great game techniques seen in mainstream games, like those presented in an article by the Casual Games Association, we step right into part 2 and thus Great Game Tenet #2: a great health game is...
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