Serious game for patients with severe burns treatment

Abstract

This document presents the project report of the Video Games Design and Development Degree Final project by Jaime Sánchez Alba. There are many people who suffer from severe burns that need to be cured, which causes a lot of pain. This can be lessened by distracting the person by doing another activity. This is the main objective of this work, to create a virtual reality environment capable of evading the person from the pain caused by these cures. In this 3D environment the player advances along a pre-established path in an automatic way, constantly moving forward. This is because people in this situation are not in a position to have much control over the game, so the interactions they may have are simplified to facilitate the gaming experience. In addition, this game is created so that it can be played on an Android mobile with a VR headset and a game pad that connects to the mobile. This game pad allows the player to have more control over the game, since having the mobile placed inside the VR headset does not allow the player to touch the screen. Although, as I said before, you don’t have to have much control over the game either, so the functions that can be performed with the game pad are quite reduced.