Inspiration
The worsening of dietary habits among youth appears to have no geographical bounds and improving dietary behavior has become a critical public health challenge around the globe. Nowadays, there has been an increased interest in games and social media. This raised the possibility of piggybacking on this trend, to nudge youth towards healthier eating habits.
Gamifying nutrition can be referred to as the strategy of employing game design elements to improve dietary behavior. My project works towards the same. I have built a fun game application whose goal is to make the users more aware of their dietary choices and educate them on how some of their decisions might affect their health.
Play the game at https://muskangarg12.github.io/HealthRider/
What it does
I have built a javascript game called Health Rider which works much like the Classic Retro Car Racing Game , which we all used to play during our childhood. However, instead of protecting our car from hitting the other cars on the road, in this game we need to make responsible dietary choices to maintain our health in order stay alive in the game.
When the game starts, the user has zero health score initially. They need to improve their health score by selecting the healthier dietary options. Once the user has a good health score, they can afford some less healthy food here and there, just like in real life. However, if the health score of the user goes below zero, they loose the game.
Also, I have tried to integrate some Augmented Reality 3-D models in the game as well, to make it more fun and enjoyable.
How I built it
I have built this application from scratch using basic JavaScript, HTML and CSS. I have also implemented Augmented Reality using EchoAR to make the application more fun and interesting.
Challenges we ran into
It was my first time working on game development. Also, integrating the 3-D AR models was a challenging as well as learning experience.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I am proud that I was able to complete this project on time.
What we learned
I learnt game development using basic javascript. Also, learnt a lot regarding Augmented Reality.
What's next for Health Rider
I would like to add more features to the game in the future to make it more interesting.
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