Achilles Initiative
SERIOUS GAME | VIRTUAL REALITY | TWICE NOMINATED
- Your timeline has been altered. You are lost in a deep space where you do not belong. Your mission is to return to the past, in order to fix the present.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
This serious V.R. game was developed in collaboration with and for the Dutch Ministry of Defence. It's designed to aid veterans in combating their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or P.T.S.D. in short.
The game promoted an exciting new experimental treatment called 3.M.D.R. supported by a treatment paper I had the honor of co-authoring.
By playing Achilles Initiative the patient greatly excels the cognitive focus and enhances the necessary experience of stress by having both body and mind challenged with an immersive virtual reality simulation.
INTERESTING FACTS
This game was nominated for both the 2014 SPIN awards, as the Accenture Innovation awards. During that time, I was personally trained in public speaking by no-one other but Gin Robercheuten, one of the co-founders of the aclaimed advertisement agency, Media Monks.
The leading doctor and colonel that invented the 3.M.D.R. threatment, went on to write another book, called: "Dit spel verandert je leven", in which I am thanked for my assited insights on applied game design.
PROJECT DETAILS
- Developed by 9Vision, exclusive for the CAREN V.R. operating system.
- Comissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Defence at the Utrecht University of the Arts in 2013.
- I was the Lead Designer and worked on desinging V.R. game challenges that both enhanced the working of the treatment and were meant to entertain the player.
- I also designed various 3D levels and spacial challenges.
- I wrote the story and designed the V.R. narrative experience.
