Eearrgh. The Gamer Geek Guide to Fibromyalgia

[countessaleska]

Here it is 3 in the morning and I am not asleep. know why?  I don't. Well sort of. I got an idea in my head, and I couldn't go to sleep without spending two hours writing it all down.

My idea is to create a teaching game to let folks learn a bit about what its like to have Fibromyalgia.

The idea came to me as I was reflecting on my day, and what I

Comments

[dameruth]

Now, weirdly, I'm getting your posts on my f-list again, though everything from the "OMGFRYMONSTERCAT" post till this one is still AWOL. WTF, LJ?

Anyway, the game sounds like a good teaching tool. Invisible Chronic Illness Week just passed recently, but your game sounds like it might be a good thing to work up and have post-around-able for next year; that'd give time to work it up, and a platform for promoting it . . .

Random thought, anyway.

[ladymustapha]

A few posts of yours are missing from my f-list too, Ruth. You and Aleska both, I read some posts and now they've gone byedie-bye.

Interesting idea, Sherri. Would this be a single or multi-player game? If multi-player, would each player be competing against the other players, or simply a yes/no for each of them as to whether they "succeeded" or "won" the game? It'd be so massively depressing to "lose" this game to someone else. I know, I'm the choir, not your target audience, but still feedback is feedback. I'll be curious to see how it develops and grows.

[countessaleska]

Live journal released a press release on their info blog that there was a two hour window when some posts were exploited by codes in some images. They had to do some stuff to take that down, and they said its all done with and safe now, but I wonder if their work to shut that down affected some posts.

The game I was looking to have it be an individual challenge, not competitive. I am thinking it could be played solo, but playing with someone else would be more fun and more opportunities to see different situations develop. THe goal would be for each person to reach for as independent living as possible on the Quality of Life meter.

[ladymustapha]

The goal would be for each person to reach for as independent living as possible on the Quality of Life meter.

So the game itself, the struggle to get the highest score you can, would be the Storm Before the Q.o.L.M.?

:P

[mamma_miller]

I think it would work better as a computer game. The computer would keep track of the energy and health levels and people would be more likely to see pretty fun stuffs to do and forget how much energy it takes. Also as a computer game it would be spread further and more people would play it and get an idea of what fibro is like.

[countessaleska]

Good idea.

When I get it designed as a trial run of cards etc I can tweak the balance, then I plan to hit up Board Game Geeks game design forums for help developing it as a web-based non OS game.