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Getting into a DiaFight!
Imagine a project that combines creativity, strategy,
and real-world impact to empower people living
with diabetes. It's fun. It's engaging. And it's not what
you'd expect. More than a game - it's an adventure.
Ryan Kelly, the mind behind
DiaFight, has more than 10
years in diabetes research
and an established passion
for game development, and has
combined his interests and talents
to create a fun as well as educational
card game. DiaFight is for people
who'd like to know more about what
it's like to live with diabetes and
teaches skills to those that are living
with it.
Says Kelly, "DiaFight is a diabetesthemed
trading card game. It's
designed to educate and engage
players in managing diabetes. By
playing, they learn about different
self-management skills, different
therapies and treatments and the
importance of support while playing
a game of strategy. With its incredibly
detailed characters, divided into
classic 'goodies' and 'baddies', it's
a card game first with diabetes
education woven into the strategy. It
makes diabetes management into a
skill, not a chore, with a shared theme
and common goals for players."
Not yet physically available, the
venture is at the start-up phase,
seeking funds to cover the initial
print run via a Kickstarter campaign.
The aim after initial fundraising, is
to get the game produced as actual
packs of card which will be given -
for free - to charities for distribution
to children with diabetes.
Early birds are helping to bring
DiaFight to life on Kickstarter. To find
out more, click HERE.