The Art of It All

What have you learned about yourself or the world as a result of living through the COVID-19 pandemic? Your challenge is to express your experience of living through this historic time through a work of art.

Al.ex - Alone experience

Summary

With this idea we hope to aware the user on the responsibilities with their welfare and point the danger of COVID-19. That awareness will be encouraged implicitly through out the whole game, being either by informative messages from WHO, NASA or diagnostic reports regarding mental and physical health. Lastly, we seek entertain and amuse the gamer in order to make the isolation less claustrophobic.

How We Addressed This Challenge

“How to manage your time during this quarantine? How to find balance between physical and mental health?”
According to an interview with the astronaut Anne McClain about the required skills to live in isolation, one of the more important point is the ability to have a self-care routine, nursing the psychological and physical sphere. The isolation can affect people in all different scopes such as age, ethnicity, classes and zones; however, it can be harder to unprivileged and uneducated young people because the lack of knowledge on practices to keep the mind sane and healthy. Some of the consequences may be anxiety, depression, stress and a sedentary lifestyle. Having the answer to the questions, the human being becomes more productive helping the search of a better living. We can verify these arguments through researches made by WHO and FioCruz that demonstrate by data analysis and experiments the harm caused by imbalanced psychological and physical health. Besides of course reports like the one made by the astronaut McClain.

How We Developed This Project

Process of exchange of plenty information applying the “Design Thinking” method. Through it, we punctuated the issues and possible solutions, being decided that the best approach was a mobile game. Having that in mind, we looked for references and made the basic shape of what we needed to encounter the potential solution and its impact.

Tags
#TheArtOfAll #MobileGame #SimulationGame #TapGame #Feelings #isolation #AloneExperience #Brazil #SpaceAppsBrazil #Recife #SãoPaulo #RiodeJaneiro
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.