Budiyu - Support Games

Games for Health is on a mission to make 5 billion people happy by creating health-related solutions. We are developing a new human support program that helps patients with chronic conditions (like Bardet-Biedl, Endometriosis, Thyroproblems) during the time they don’t spend in hospitals. This is called Budiyu.

The first version focuses on:

• Medication intake
• Weigh monitoring
• Social & daily journaling

Also in this version a parent of a child with BBS can manage the condition of their child together.

BBS is a condition that impacts the whole family. You have to constantly change your life to manage nutricion, exercise and relaxation. This goes hand in hand with a lot of emotions. Also over time they will be faced with loss of sight.

Alternative challenge: Design a game to enable children with BBS to cope with the fact that they are losing eyesight or create games that can be played with poor eyesight.

Scope and Requirements

To make it a bit less dependant on BBS children, let’s focus on games that help you and others surrounding you cope with 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. How can you help recognizing emotions and link that to your own emotion?

For poor eyesight, you can also think about how do you learn children/people to use the Hable as a controller for digital environments.

Starting Resources

Budiyu.com and brandguide is available.

Expected Deliverables

• Research document on emotional coping
• Market analysis, what is already out there
• Playable prototype incl instructions on how to use
• Short trailer
• Outcome of user test sessions
• Recommendations for further development