[OLPC-Games] a new game for OLPC from us

[Peter Smith]

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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>  >
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