Game for “The bonus years diet”

The challenge was to come up with a game that incorporates the techniques used in the book “The bonus years diet” by Dr. Ralph Felder and Carol Colman



The game:

• It is flash based
• More like a "Platform setting"
• Single player
• Objective is to increase life index by creating the correct recipe
  

The objective of this flash based game is to change a skinny guy to a healthy man. The scenario is set in the kitchen. You start off being a skinny guy.


Starting state ------->

<------Life index = -10 Life index = +5 ------->










You have the entire kitchen with all sort of utensils and groceries. Now going along with the recipes in the book you have to cook a meal. If you put in the right ingredients your life index increases and your body becomes healthy. If you create a wrong recipe or go with the wrong combination your health worsens.
In the process of the game, as the player is in the kitchen he does virtual cooking. There is a time involved in the cooking process, indexes for sweetness,sourness,salty... this makes the game realistic and also make the player memorizes the recipe.

My Favorite game

Age of empires

Reasons why I like the game:

• Not heavy but good graphics – Very less real time rendering, the game works really well in low end PCs too, I used to play it on a Celeron 466 MHz
• The Game play involves an amazing amount of strategy – Managing citizens and armies simultaneously. This was not unique to this game but I liked the balance of strategy here
• The Navigation and the functionality of the game were excellent. Using short cuts like “.” To find a free citizen was good
• Engrossing story board, especially the one with William Wallace. It is like history retold.
• The concept of having a complete war of the medieval times is amazing … all the details of the war are well designed. Like only Bowmen can kill Cavalry.
• The concept of evolution from castle age to medieval age is unique
• Different modes of the game like Regicide, Death match … can make if fun, regional changes like winter, desert, archipelago all make it challenging