Terra
Terra is a planet-building game played on a smart exercise bike.
Integrating cognitive training with physical exercise, Terra was designed as a rehabilitation tool for patients recovering from brain cancer.
CONCEPT
Imagine discovering a tiny, frozen planet in need of tender loving care.
By nurturing this planet with hard physical work and careful mental focus, you can restore it to a thriving ecosystem, complete with lakes, mountains, forests, and even undiscovered creatures.
execution
TERRA is played on a smart exercise bike commonly found in clinical settings. The bike’s handlebars include simple custom controls for maneuvering a space ship displayed on a connected screen.
Players terraform their planet through a series of low and high-intensity cycling stages tailored to each patient.
low-intensity exercise Levels allow players to earn terraforming resources like water, geology, vegetation, and alien creatures through cognitive games.
high-intensity exercise levels, allow players to spend those resources by restoring the ecology of their planet as possible, raising their heart rate in the process.
Over the course of their treatment, each player’s planet reflects improvements in physical fitness and cognitive skill.
