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Paddle2See wrote:

...There actually is at least one area where being over-weight seems to have a survival advantage...and that's cold-water immersion survival times.  A person's body fat helps protect them from the cold.  I do a lot of cold-water kayak paddling so I'm very interested in that particular topic  ...

You covered several ideas in your post,
i will throw in my cold water related ideas first:

I doubt that these former professional cold water hunters were obese until they met western nutrition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo

-->  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_diet

Do you have any data what is the survival edge of higher body fat in minutes compared to slim people in cold water?

Last edited by eventexception (2012-01-24 04:24:50)

I enjoy Liru's idea. How about you can make your food choices for the day, and you work out anywhere at night, (perhaps the YMCA) and your food choices reflects on your performance? Maybe it doesn't have to be a game, maybe a realistic simulation. Anyways, props for making a game about a serious topic that NEEDS to be fixed!

-CP

eventexception wrote:

Thanks for replying!

Paddle2See wrote:

...There actually is at least one area where being over-weight seems to have a survival advantage...and that's cold-water immersion survival times.  A person's body fat helps protect them from the cold.  I do a lot of cold-water kayak paddling so I'm very interested in that particular topic  ...

You covered several ideas in your post,
i will throw in my cold water related ideas first:

I doubt that these former professional cold water hunters were obese until they met western nutrition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo

Do you have any data what is the survival edge of higher body fat in minutes compared to slim people in cold water?

But they ate whale fat! And seal fat. And they had nice snug coats to make them sink faster. And they were skilled so they wouldn't fall in.

Recommending fun ways to exercise in different seasons.

I collected material how it happens,
but little data or links regarding ´why is it bad?´

Any input?

How about a fitness game. Sort of like wii fit, but on the computer. Make it as close to wii fit as possible.

There's not really much to explain about wii sports. I was thinking you could have several sport related games (Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Bowling, ect.) and use glove pie (glivepie.org). You could pick up a wiimote at walmart for around 10 bucks, and use glove pie to play the wii game. See, you could really swing the wiimote to play the games.

eventexception wrote:

elfin8er wrote:

There's not really much to explain about wii sports. I was thinking you could have several sport related games (Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Bowling, ect.) and use glove pie (glivepie.org). You could pick up a wiimote at walmart for around 10 bucks, and use glove pie to play the wii game. See, you could really swing the wiimote to play the games.

http://glovepie.org/glovepie.php deserves its own thread - wow great input, elfin8er!!!
   found so far: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=367804#p367804

Regarding my upcoming obesity project:
Sports and calories counting alone will not do the trick, i already researched what probably does the trick.

I still need more input or links why obesity is harmful to motivate for change
and
I am looking for ideas to keep players reading instead of letting them jump to the next project due to boredom.

You could put it in clutter. Clutter allows you to put a bunch of scratch projects together, to make a longer project (Sort of) you can make it so that the user gets a password at the end of the project, that they can then enter on the next project. This way they can't just skip to the last one without knowing the password. The only thing is, if you have any variables, they can't be transferred to the project. When you could do how ever, is make it so that the user records their calories lost, after each game, and then adds them together at the end. Also, you could use the swing detecting feature in glove pie, to make it so that the user has to swing, rather then tilt. This would probably feel more realistic.

Also, I'm making a Glove Pie discussion right now, so I'll give you the link when I'm done here.

elfin8er wrote:

I made the official glovepie topic...

I do not see in your topic there that you gave credit to me for this idea 

Back to topic:

I still need more input or links why obesity is harmful to motivate for change 
and
I am looking for ideas to keep players reading instead of letting them jump to the next project due to boredom 

PlutoIsHades - thanks for your input !

In the meantime I discovered a great resource: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/

Remaining last open question to all:
How to keep players reading?

I am looking for ideas to keep players reading instead of letting them jump to the next project due to boredom  big_smile

Any advice?  Any data? (attention span... ?)

Paddle2See wrote:

An interesting idea!  Everything I read says that obesity is a big problem.  One thing you might want to try to address in your game is why.  Why is it a problem?  What are the medical risks of being over weight?   What are the other costs (financial, societal, and so on) ? 

There actually is at least one area where being over-weight seems to have a survival advantage...and that's cold-water immersion survival times.  A person's body fat helps protect them from the cold.  I do a lot of cold-water kayak paddling so I'm very interested in that particular topic 

Oh that makes so much more sense now!
That's why I'm always hot!
Unless I'm sick

PlutoIsHades wrote:

eventexception wrote:

PlutoIsHades - thanks for your input !

In the meantime I discovered a great resource: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/

Remaining last open question to all:
How to keep players reading?

I am looking for ideas to keep players reading instead of letting them jump to the next project due to boredom  big_smile

Any advice?  Any data? (attention span... ?)

You're welcome. 

Maybe incorporate some sort of game every few pages as a quiz for what they've read?

Yeah