Tichron Virtual Pet is an educational game in which you will have to take care of a virtual pet that suffers from one of these chronic diseases: diabetes, asthma or obesity. You will learn how to help it using specific elements for each disease.
In addition, you must always be alert, when you least expect it, its health can worsen and you will have to react quickly to make it improve.
Good healthy habits will be essential in your daily life with your pet:
- Diet: try to choose healthy food.
- Rest: put your pet to sleep so it can rest.
- Exercise: do some exercise by jumping or walking with your mobile.
- Leisure: Play some mini-games to entertain it.
Play, learn and have fun!
Tichron Virtual Pet has been developed within the scope of the TICHRON project: Use of ICTs as a tool to improve comprehensive care for children with chronic diseases. Project co-financed by the Interreg Sudoe Program through of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
This application includes information on diabetes, asthma and obesity. For more information on these ailments you can consult the following links:
- Diabetes: https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/diabetes
- Asthma: https://www.who.int/respiratory/asthma/en/
- Childhood overweight and obesity: https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/childhood/en/