Apr 23 2009
Check Blood Sugar to Get High Score?
Anyone who was a kid remembers that when adults attempted to make something fun, it usually came out lame if not embarrassing. It’s not that their hearts weren’t in the right place, it’s just they weren’t connecting to the actual interests of their youthful audience. Trying to make medical stuff fun? Even worse.
It usually involved a musical number.
However, today someone pointed me towards a trailer for a video game targeting kids with Type 1 diabetes. It’s called The Magi and The Sleeping Star . It involves a character who is the chosen one, has to save his homeland, yadda yadda. He also is diabetic and has to periodically take care of himself.
The trailer shows a third person shooter gaming environment similar to the Ratchet and Clank series or later Jak and Daxter games. There’s things to shoot and puzzles to solve, but mostly we see the shooting.
My fear is that someone tacked on a Blood Glucose mini-game to an existing property. That said, it looks like it might have some entertainment value and I’m certainly not going to begrude a kid growing up with diabetes a video game that speaks directly to them. Also, all we’ve seen is one trailer and that’s not enough to form anything resembling a solid opinion.
So if you have a kid with Type 1 and you let them blow things up, keep an eye out for this one.
