Patent ID: 8092226
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A game for teaching a user about conditions affecting the human body, the game comprising: a game zone representing a body inflicted with a condition; a number of opponents, wherein at least one of the opponents is an enemy character in the game, the opponents representing attributes of the condition; a character representing the user; a number of questions, the user being required to supply answers to the questions; one or more weapons for overcoming the opponents, the weapons being opponent specific such that a weapon would only affect a predetermined opponent, the weapons being awarded to the character in response to the user demonstrating a level of knowledge corresponding to a number of correctly answered questions, the user being able to control the character to use the weapons against the opponents; a story-line representing the progression of the condition, the character being required to eliminate at least some of the opponents in order to allow the user to overcome the condition and win the game, wherein overcoming a sufficient number of opponents to overcome the condition represents the victory of the user and the recovery of the body, wherein failure to overcome a sufficient number of opponents to overcome the condition represents victory of the disease; and, wherein the game is generated by a processing system and is embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium.