Scratch

It'd be like a platformer. You could eat fattening foods, or non-fattening foods.

If you're skinny, you could fit into small spaces. If you're fat, you could roll around and break breakable surfaces and survive in cold water and crush enemies with your fatness.

But if you get fat, you won't be able to jump.
If you get way too fat, you explode and lose a life.

Last edited by videogame9 (2012-01-26 22:13:02)

luiysia wrote:

videogame9 wrote:

It'd be like a platformer. You could eat fattening foods, or non-fattening foods.

If you're skinny, you could fit into small spaces. If you're fat, you could roll around and break breakable surfaces and survive in cold water and crush enemies with your fatness.

But if you get fat, you won't be able to jump.
If you get way too fat, you explode and lose a life.

That actually sounds pretty fun.

It's educational, too!

"Don't eat too much, or you might explode! Literally!"

LOL    - thanks to the last posters ! Good points! 

How about a diabetes leg dissect or is this to cruel ?

Still on topic: attention span of players - how to keep them playing

Oi! I'm very interested in this topic. I recently decided I wanted to get fitter, so I made a sort-of game on Scratch. It includes exercises. Basically, you're a warrior and animals attack you. Each animal has a different exercise. You complete the exercise, then click the animal to signal you've finished. When you click it, you get the experience points. Every so often you level up. I've used my own game to exercise and I think it works really well!

What do you guys think?

PlutoIsHades wrote:

...leg dissect?  What?

Oops, more precise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complications_of_diabetes_mellitus
´In the developed world, diabetes is the most significant cause of adult blindness in the non-elderly and the leading cause of non-traumatic amputation in adults, and diabetic nephropathy is the main illness requiring renal dialysis in the United States.[23]´

Opinions? Add amputations or is this inappropiate?

coppearlix - thanks, at the moment i am solely looking for:
Attention span of players - how to keep them playing 

First of all... is this going to be an article? An interactive article? Or is it going to be an actual GAME? If it isn't a GAME--if it's only READING--you aren't going to get much attention in the first place.

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 

Hence your name...

coppearlix wrote:

Oi! I'm very interested in this topic. I recently decided I wanted to get fitter, so I made a sort-of game on Scratch. It includes exercises. Basically, you're a warrior and animals attack you. Each animal has a different exercise. You complete the exercise, then click the animal to signal you've finished. When you click it, you get the experience points. Every so often you level up. I've used my own game to exercise and I think it works really well!

What do you guys think?

I think this is a cool way to motivate yourself!  Have you shared your project on the site?  I'd love to see it.  There was a recent article in Popular Science that discussed ways to "gameify" your life to help motivate you to achieve your goals...I found it fascinating.  Here's another article on "gameification" I found with Google.

Thanks again  , i am wading through your input and my own biased ideas!

I just tried the free http://freemind.sourceforge.net,
seems to be great for structuring larger projects.

At the moment i favorite some action game with
a weight changing character and
knowledge banners to unlock and read.

How do you think about?

Weight-changing character sounds interesting except you want to make it absolutely clear that the goal is not only to lose weight, but to gain health & fitness...

Have you ever seen a show called The Biggest Loser? Well it's about adults who go to a ranch and they lose as much weight as they can and the winner gets like $25,000 or something like that. You could make a game based off of that.

hungergamesfanatic wrote:

Have you ever seen a show called The Biggest Loser?

No, thanks for this hint!   

While scrolling down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_biggest_loser
i learned other folks have already written video games about!
http://www.metacritic.com/search/all/the+biggest+loser/results

Anybody here writing some pros and cons about?  Like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biggest_Loser_%28U.S._TV_series%29#Weight_Loss_Regimen:_Risks_and_Criticism

Btw. i need field research why so many obese people gave up on trying.
I hesitate to ask some obese people, because they might get upset