sexual health – Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio

Guide the Narwhal

Blair MacIntyre — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:36:14 +0000

Guide the Narwhal is a game whose goal is to use a playful theme to teach some basic facts about condom use and safe sex. The player must help the narwhals put jellyfish covers on their horns, before going into the undersea temple to play. While in the temple, the narwhal collects coins and treasures, until the jellyfish is filled and begins to fall off. The player needs to guide the narwhal out of the temple before this happens; if the jellyfish falls off while in the temple, the game is over. The player can put another jellyfish on the narwhal horn, and return to the temple to collect treasures.

The game was developed by Daniel Cazan, an MS CS student at Georgia Tech.

Volcano Fever, Spring 2011

Blair MacIntyre — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:03:57 +0000

Volcano Fever is a handheld augmented reality game designed to teach proper condom use in a playful way. The game was inspired by a desire to leverage vision-based AR to create an fun game that uses the condom package itself as the physical prop to which the game is attached.

Over the course of the Spring semester, the game was updated to have a sequence of three minigames (cap the volcano, unroll the condom to cover it fully, and dispose of the used condom) that mirror the three steps of proper condom use.

The team that worked on the game over the year includes:

Anna Mansour, MS HCI
Michael Downing, Computational Media
Bryan Hickerson, MS CS
Leigh Ann Kinnison, SCAD
Mae Tidman, Computational Media
Jia Zhang, MS CS
Tarick Khalaf, Computational Media
Jason Lee, MS Digital Media

Here’s a video of the project:

Volcano Fever

Blair MacIntyre — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:22:41 +0000

The team that created the game is:

Anna Mansour, MS HCI
Mae Tidman, Computational Media
Jia Zhang, MS CS
Tarick Khalaf, Computational Media
Jason Lee, MS Digital Media

Here’s a video of the project: