Nutri-Café

Nutri-Café

The importance of the rainbow plate

During our fifth semester we had the opportunity and the pleasure to work in cooperation with Boehringer Ingelheim. They requested for a game to be made about the importance of a balanced diet.

Said game would then be distributed amongst their workforce to ensure that mindful eating habits and good physical health are prioritised.

Gallery

  • Main Menu

    The main menu contains most of the colours of the food groups portrayed in the game. Ease of use and understanding are prioritised since we could not assume that all employees were game-literate.

  • A fateful meeting in the cafeteria

    After stumbling into the Boehringer Ingelheim cafeteria famished and malnourished, you meet the personifications of the food groups. They band together to help you fix your misaligned diet.

  • Complex quiz structures

    With the quiz about nutrition being the core mechanic of the game, we put considerable effort into the multilinearity of the narrative and quiz design.

skills

and

  • teamwork and -management

  • cooperation with a client/company

  • presenting progress and final product to a client

  • interdisciplinary work

  • narrative design

  • quiz design

  • creation of an educational game

programs

  • twine

  • miro

  • powerpoint

  • rpg maker

The Design process

This game was a group project with Juni Schulze, Lucia Möllenbruck, Finn rose and Anabel Bunk. In this Group I took care of the Narrative and quiz design alongside Lucia and Took care of the documentation and presentation aspects.

in the beginning of the design process we brainstormed possible implementations of the given topic. We quickly settled on a visual novel since this genre is one of the most beginner-friendly game genres we could imagine.

juni designed the personified Food groups, Lucia and I did research on the individual nutrients and implemented them into the quiz questions and finn filled the role of resident programmer. ANabel did the UI Design.

We focussed on easy-to-understand language, clear design and lovable characters to make the gaming experience as fun as possible even for employees that are entirely unfamiliar with digital games. Additionally, we kept the play time to a short 10-15 Minutes so that the employees can finish one playthrough on their break.

By ways of the branching narrative structures there is a considerable potential for replayability as well.