Games4Health – Budiyu

Games4Health is a company that works with people from the healthcare and elderly care. They mainly specialize in creating serious games aimed at promoting health and wellness. The games that they make are designed so that users learn about their illness or other health related topics. These games might even assist in medical training/rehabilitation. They explore applying gaming elements to for example the IC, they are also working with the Catharina hospital in Eindhoven for that. They can create prototypes for patients in need to help them cope with their disease/illness the patient may have. Games4Health develops various gaming applications that tackle different aspects of health, such as fitness, mental health, disease management, and more.

Description of the Assignment

BBS is a condition that impacts the whole family. You have to constantly change your life to manage nutrition, exercise and relaxation. This goes hand in hand with a lot of emotions. For BBS, it is the emotion that comes from the realisation that they cannot do things anymore that they are used to or are not able to do anymore or takes too much energy. This leads to emotions as frustration, disappointment, defeat and sadness. Also over time they will be faced with loss of sight.

Scope and Requirements

To make it a bit less dependant on BBS children, focus on:

wholesome cooperative gameplay between sighted and people with poor eyesight
a game that helps players cope with their emotions, directly or through cooperative play

For poor eyesight, you can also think about how do you teach people to use the Hable as a controller for digital environments. We chose to focus on this

Game Description:

You and someone else, presumably a parent and a child who is about to lose their eyesight have to take care of animals by playing fun minigames.

Together you play as a young characther who just bought a new house, but the house comes with a catch. There is an abandoned zoo in the backyard which you have to take care of. This is supposed to represent the sudden change in someones life, such as losing your eyesight.

Team Members:

Bas Geven
Yui de Winter
Sem Sannen
Jason van de Beek
Vincent Scheffer
Jialei Cao

Key features of the game:

Learn braille in an engaging way with the Hable controller
Unique interactions with the Hable controller
Engaging story
Work together (Parent x Child)
Interactive minigames with the Hable controller and a Playstation / Xbox controller.
Supported platforms: MacOS

How To Play:

Connect your Hable controller and your PS/Xbox controller to your MacBook and launch the game. After launching the game and listening to the story you can use the Hable to start minigames.