Since I’m getting everyone else to blog about this, I figure I ought to post something about my own project. I will be working with the Royal Rehabilitation Hospital at Ryde to design rehabilitation games for burns and stroke patients.

My plan is to use the iisu tracking software from Softkinetic to do limb-movement tracking. Using this as the main input for the game, I will be developing gameplay and a control scheme that encourages players to challenge the mobility of their arms and legs. The game will be tuneable to whatever the player’s current limits of mobility may be, and fun to play for both mobile and restricted players.

At the moment the project is in the research phase. I need to find out more about the demographics of our target audience and also about the appropriate exercises for them. Tomorrow we will address the first question in a focus-group meeting of patients at the hospital.