[OLPC-Games] a new game for OLPC from us
Peter Smith
peteralfredsmith at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 13:37:33 EDT 2008
I think it would be interesting from a cultural perspective if you
could load food files from other countries and see what they eat as
well. I was surprised to see some of the food choices in cooking
momma, but I think I learned something about what Japanese people eat
at the same time.
Peter
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Ben Sawyer <bsawyer at dmill.com> wrote:
> The problem with a game like this is getting the design to be such
> that the obvious things like Pizza are not in the game. To make the
> challenge be more subtle then eating pizza - bad eating fruit good.
>
> Also you need to consider that food and nutrition are quite culturally
> based and therefore there are things in other parts of the world
> normally eaten that are bad for them but we never eat and the opposite
> issue which is that foods which are good might not even exist in that
> culture.
>
> What would be cool is if you made a game where the ability to program
> in the nutritional data is left to a separate file that one could edit
> to calibrate things more.
>
> You might also want to look at different ideas for food pyramids and
> also the issue that some fats are fine but things like trans fats are
> bad. Nutrition games can't be so black and white or they will fail
> like many other ones have that I've seen and collectively call "catch
> the fruit" games as they devolve to that premise when in fact that as
> a premise does not lead to significant behavior change.
>
> Ben
> co-founder Games for Health
> www.gamesforhealth.org
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2008, at 1:11 PM, eunyoung chung wrote:
>
> > My team and I have been developing an activity for OLPC laptop.
> > The name of the activity is Food-Man !
> > The feature of game is Pacman that many people are familiar and easy
> > to play. It will have three Levels. Each level will have a nutrition
> > indicator (Carbohydrate, Protein, fat, calcium, and fiber). The
> > criteria to proceed to a higher level will be to achieve the
> > required daily percentage of nutrition. If the food is good /
> > nutritious they will get more points. The purpose of the activity is
> > to teach important facts about food and nutrition and why it's
> > important for them to make healthy food choices from a young age.
> > this is link for prototype of the game
> >
> > http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~chung/olpc-foodman.jpg
> >
> > As you see in the prototype, when pizza is eaten, nutrition bar is
> > increased.
> > we are using python and pygame lib.
> >
> > How do you think about the game??
> > we need your feedback so that we can improve more!!
> > --
> >
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