Wellcome Trust Obesity interactive Flash game
An interactive learning game about nature, nurture and obesity. Read more about this project.
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health.
Established in 1936 and with an endowment of around £11 billion, it is the UK’s largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.
As a privately endowed charity, they are independent from governments, from industry and from donors.
What the client had to say
www.wellcomecollection.org/interactives/theobs/ at Wellcome Trust commented:
“Tony Sherborne commented:
"The OB's was a really challenging learning game to make. iWeb were full of creative ideas and great at interpreting my instructions, both in the graphics and the interface design.
They delivered an excellent product. "”
Project overview
Wellcome Trust approached Interactive Web Solutions with a brief to develop an interactive game to help try and tackle the obesity crisis with young children.
The solution included:
- Interactive educational game built in Macromedia Flash, developed for the Wellcome Trust.
- Objective was to enable students to explore the complex interactions between genotype, socio-economic setting, upbringing, and chance in the context of obesity.
- The game involves students taking on the role of ‘virtual parent’, bringing up human-like characters called OBs in order to gain an understanding of the complex network of interactions involved in weight control.
