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Health Game

a health game and game technology, applied in the field of exercise and health games, can solve the problems of having both cardio spaces on the first track, and achieve the effects of facilitating game play, promoting healthy behavior, and gaining or losing fat points

Inactive Publication Date: 2015-07-16
DRENDEL JODEY
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The present invention is a health and fitness online game that promotes healthy behavior. The game involves multiple players who log in and play through steps to earn points and avatars. The game includes a display and different sections for warm-up, workout, and cool down. The goal is to provide a convenient and effective way to exercise and improve fitness while playing a game.

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The first track can be more difficult having both cardio spaces and question and answer spaces which can be made in combination to form one or more combination cardio and question and answer spaces.

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[0062]During gameplay, users may gain or lose weight. The gain or loss of weight is a score. Similar to golf, the lower score is preferred. A user may have an avatar 180, or a custom avatar. A custom avatar could be uploaded by graphic file, or can be a camera on a device such as a smart phone that takes a photograph of a user and then uses the photograph for the avatar. The avatar could be made to appear to gain or lose weight.

[0063]The game can be implemented by a physical tabletop board game and can also be implemented on a computer as a game or implemented on both the computer screen and the boardgame. The gameboard implemented on any computer screen will have a gameboard panel 188 and a control panel 170. The gameboard panel 188 and control panel 170 can be set as different frames or sections.

[0064]A warm-up section of the game precedes a workout section of the game, and both are followed by a cool down section of the game. The warm-up begins at a start warm-up space 110. Durin...

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A computer implemented game can promote healthy behavior. The game has steps including assigning to each player an avatar on a computer for use during game play. One or more computer user players can play this game. The computer has a display. The computer facilitates game play by presenting a game board on a display to the plurality of players. The computer also presents a workout exercise to players when a die roll lands a player on a workout space; and presents a fitness question to players when a die roll lends a player on a question and answer space. The computer also presents a cardio challenge to players when a die roll lends a player on a cardio space; and receives a score based upon player performance.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention is in the field of exercise and health games.DISCUSSION OF RELATED ART[0002]A variety of different exercise games have been implemented and discussed in the patent literature. A board game described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,722,885 issued Mar. 23, 1973 to inventor Leaf entitled Exercise Game the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. The Leaf game provides an exercise game with cards divided into groups. Each group has a category of exercises that players engage in to obtain points.[0003]In U.S. Pat. No. 8,376,750 to inventor Murphy-Aniceto, entitled Online Game System And Method To Promote Healthy Behaviors issued Feb. 19, 2013, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, an online game promotes healthy behavior by engaging computer users and providing educational information about health and nutrition. Users are assigned an avatar of a belly “belly-tar” and according to answers to profile questions the ...

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IPC IPC(8): A63F3/00
CPCA63F3/00643A63F3/00028A63F3/0478A63B21/0552A63F2003/00996A63F3/00006A63F2300/8064A63F13/80A63B21/0726A63B24/0059A63B5/20A63B19/00A63B21/065A63B21/072A63B22/02A63B22/0664A63B23/1236A63B23/14A63B21/222
Inventor DRENDEL, JODEY
Owner DRENDEL JODEY
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