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Interactive Taboo: Tackling HIV/AIDS with Games
Posted by Andre Blackman in Disease Management, Making Games, News, Prevention on 07 3rd, 2009 | 8 Comments
Despite the somewhat taboo history of HIV/AIDS, there is no doubt that the disease is continuing to be a problem in the United States and around the world. As a matter of fact, a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed that Americans’ sense of urgency about HIV/AIDS has decreased significantly,...
National Study Shows Efficacy of Suicide-Prevention Game
Posted by Jenelle Boucher in Prevention, Research/Theory, Using Health Games on 07 2nd, 2009 | 5 Comments
At-Risk, a game designed to train university faculty in identifying, approaching, and referring students who exhibit signs of mental distress, was recently assessed in a national study at 42 universities across the U.S. Findings for the study reveal the game’s effectiveness in improving users’...
Pamoja Mtaani Honored for AIDS Relief Efforts
Live the experience, learn the truth, change the future.
Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment was honored this past week by the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for its efforts in the fight against the African AIDS epidemic with its new health game Pamoja Mtaani. ...
Interview: Nasonex’s “Don’t Blow It” Allergy Game
Ah, spring and summer – the seasons where we fight with pollen, grass and any other triggers to cause our eyes to water and our noses to erupt in a string of sneezes. Fortunately for me, allergies aren’t too much of a problem but for many of you who that’s the opposite, you’ll...
MD Anderson to Build $3.7M Anti-Smoking Health Game
Video games curb the huff and puff.
According to the Serious Games Source, the United States Department of Defense has awarded a $3.7M grant to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas to develop serious game Project Combat which is designed to “curb” smoking among military personnel. ...
Gaming the Flu: Having Fun With H1N1
Posted by Andre Blackman in Disease Management, Prevention, Using Health Games on 05 8th, 2009 | 17 Comments
For the past two weeks or so, the outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus – more commonly known as the swine flu – has had people all over the globe on edge. Just last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) made it clear that this was a public health event of pandemic proportions. What followed...
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 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 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...
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