Prosthetica

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Story:

After recovering from a horrible accident, Emi has been released from the hospital in order to start the process of getting prosthetics. She rides off to Dr. Otto's Office in order to begin the fitting for her prosthetics. During her physical training, the office is attacked by pro-natural / anti-prosthetics protesters. After evading the protesters, Dr. Otto informs Emi of the newest policies of a Senator Vanthis, who despises the unnatural appearance of those with Prosthetics. With a new, upgraded se of prosthetics, Emi must journey into the city, destroy the protester generators, escape from her own mind, and confront Vanthis.

 

Objective:

In each level the objective is to travel to a particular area. The game is primarily a platformer, and requires the player to solve jumping puzzles and evade / defeat enemies. Towards the end, the enemies begin actively attacking Emi, and thus she starts needing to defeat them in order to progress.

 

Audience:

This game is intended for play by students age 5-15, those who have developed the required muscle skill to play an action game and are literate.

 

Team Members:

Abhilash Bajracharya, Jason Montgomery

 

Health Lesson:

The purpose of this game is to teach children of the challenge and role of prosthetics. Often times human beings, particularly children, can be fearful or cruel towards people they do not understand. This game hopes to alleviate this phenomenon by exposing children to some of the feelings those using prosthetics may feel. 

The design and fabrication process is a Difficult, time-consuming task which starts with extensive measurements of the patient’s amputated limb. From the length of the pinky to the width of the elbow a prosthetist painstakingly takes measurements of most of the features of the limb. If it is possible, a prosthetist begins taking measurements before the patient's limb is even amputated, so they can start designing a new prosthetic for the patient. The prosthetist will meet up with the patient to ask the specifications of the prosthetics they want.

After all the measurements have been taken and the analysis done the prosthetist starts the creation of the prosthetic takes a plaster mold of the other limb if it was an arm or leg but for structures like the nose where the body only has one copy of the prosthetist has to measure other parts of the body and try to make a copy fitting the body size. After working on the model and trying to add as much as detail as possible the prosthetist has a duplicate of the real limb the patient needs. Now the prosthetist focuses on the actual attachment of the prosthetic to the body of the patient. This attachment is called a socket and is made by a sheet of clear thermoplastic is heated in a large oven and then vacuum-formed around the positive mold. In this process, the heated sheet is simply laid over the top of the mold in a vacuum chamber. The sheet is heated again then all the air between the sheet and the mold is extracted by a vacuum. This causes the sheet to collapse and take the exact shape of the mold. The prosthetist meets with the patient again to check if the socket fits. Then the creation of a pylon, the actual internal structure of the prosthetic, begins by using materials like plastic, metals and wood and putting them together in a variety of ways, using bolts, adhesives, and lamination. Foam cover is used to make artificial skin that is made to match the patient’s skin color and features. After the fabrication of the cover is complete the pylon is attached to the socket and the foam cover is placed over it to create a lifelike limb.

With this finished, the prosthetist meets with the patient once more in order to attach and finalize the prosthetic. By the end of the process, the once useless limb has been allowed to work again, giving the user the control they once lacked.