Featured Game - January 2007

Within the ever-growing video game industry, there is a new type of game – serious games. These are not traditional entertainment games, but simulations and role-playing programs used in education, training, medicine, and even government. “Escape from Diab” is a new serious adventure game that puts players in a sci-fi world of healthy eating and exercise. Collaborating with the Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston-based Archimage has been developing the game to teach kids about making positive food choices in an attempt to stop childhood obesity and diabetes.

Since 1983, Archimage has been using visual design technology to create everything from animation and architectural models to Web design and multimedia. “Escape from Diab” is just one in a series of projects Archimage has been developing to help advance childhood health studies. Other projects include “Nanoswarm,” a computer game focused on the effects of unhealthy eating on the body, and “Judy Fruity,” a short animated film for 3 to 5 year olds about the benefits of fruits and vegetables.