RMIT Students Design Exergames for Classroom Project

Professor Florian Mueller of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia has published the results of a recent classroom project dedicated to the creation of exergames. The project tasked students with designing games that encourage physical movement and exercise. Lecture sessions for the class began in April. For the class, students grouped into teams of five members. Each team designed its own game concept, which was then presented for peer review via an accompanying website. The project resulted in sixteen game concepts in all, ranging from the sports title JumpShock! to the trackball-controlled racing simulator Roly Poly. Other demonstrated concepts include the multiplayer toast-throwing simulator Toast, a stationary bike-controlled adaptation of Paperboy, and the Virtua Hamster-like WiiRoll. Student game concepts and classroom discussions have been documented at the project's website.