The Quest for the Perfect ExerGame

Just back from a great holiday in the Black Forest, Germany, which revolved round a family wedding. It is a beautiful landscape with an abundance of trees – so lots of things made of wood about the place. Despite getting away from it all, I managed to fit in some “Eco ExerGaming”…

The dice shown in the pictures below were knocking about a rink designed for French Boules judging by the detailed rules shown on a nearby sign. I had a go a “rolling” a few of the dice, one at a time as they were rather heavy, with a view to an ExerGame of Yahtzee. I soon realized that not only were they a bit on a heavy side, but there was also a design flaw (see if you can spot it in the photos)!

Opting for softwood rather than plastic construction might permit the use of the term “Eco”, but there is at present no sign of any “electronics” that would properly qualify it as an “ExerGame”! However, all is not lost as I had with me a book for holiday reading on how to put small micro-controllers into objects in order to “wire them up”.

So whilst this form of “Eco ExerGaming” is at the present stage a “concept project”, it could be a sign of things to come, so watch this space…