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Silverlight Games: Seriously

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Seriously, my bud had PMP, Farah Fawcett has cancer down a little further down the alimentary canal.  Farah’s is tragic, but it occurs more often than the PMP, so the research is going to go after the cancer that occurs more often.  How do we prepare a game that will help the family understand an orphan disease and the hard required to survive.  I had pneumonia and thought that I was going to die, but I got over it after a week of intense antibiotics and major painkillers (I am a big baby).  Ok, I have decided to struggle with this game, I guess if the PMP patients can go through what they have to go through, I can at least stick with the game.

This is the worse way to get the numbers for my blog, I should use the keywords to attract the web crawlers, I know that Cy (he is my mentor on getting hits!) and Hilary (she is a big help as well), but I just have to stick with this.  So here we go, from “clean” paper to a game.  For once I will have to stick with it. Normally you wouldn’t decide on the technology ahead of time, but I made the decision to use Silverlight 3.0, that’s it.  If you want to create a Flash based game, let me know, I would like to present it as well.

So let’s start our game with the following requirements analysis:

Who is the audience?

  • The PMP patient
  • The patient’s family
  • Doctor’s trying to communicate efficiently with the family

What  is the purpose of the game?

  • Help the patient understand the road ahead for the cure
  • Reuse the code to demonstrate the path of the patient for the family and friends so that they can better understand how the process will impact them and their relative or friend with PMP

How will it be best presented?

  • In this case it will be presented using Silverlight 3.0 using web presentation with Silverlight videos.  As we work through the game, and it has to have a fun factor even if the subject isn’t a ton of fun

What is the message?

  • Help the patient have a tracking process of their medical procedures and planning

One of the rules of creating a game myself, I get to change the requirement analysis to map to the needs of my blog, PMP patients, and so forth.

Also, like any game, we have a deadline, the model patient is going into treatment and hopefully recovery. 

It would be nice to have something to show him prior to he gets to deep into treatment.  If you want to collaborate, I will set-up a Codeplex project to store the code and to allow collaboration.

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