We have decided to initiate a new project to design games (video, arcade) and apps to help people in w/d. We would like to make a whole range of products to help heal, educate, and entertain people in w/d. We might create different products for the different stages of w/d -- newbie, mid-term, long-timer. We definitely plan to make the games / apps available in different languages in order to fulfill our international mission.
Games and apps are huge in the zeitgeist right now. They are strongly appealing to a great number of people worldwide. We know that the antidepressant w/d pandemic is coming. This project would be a way to reach a lot of people -- more than discussion forums probably will.
Some of the games / apps might be about the hardships of w/d (with a sense of humor added). Some might be about how to identify and pursue one's passions. We could have a game educating about healthy things to do in w/d. We could even make a game about bonking Big Pharma. People in w/d need to fill a lot of time, need help with the anxiety, and need constructive ideas and support that they cannot generate on their own. We think the games could be both fun and educational.
One of the first ideas we are considering is a smartphone app to track w/d symptoms (we got this idea from Iggy) and interventions, and look for patterns. This would allow people to cross-reference whether any change in supplements, diet, exercise, treatment had any positive / adverse impact on symptoms. It would also allow people to track their overall progress with, say, monthly graphs. Such an app might lead people to discover new patterns to w/d that we haven't identified yet. Eventually, we could get people who wanted to participate to share their records and look for bigger patterns....
Another idea is to create an app to help with calculating tapering. We have other ideas in the pipeline, too.
So, we would prefer to keep this in the family and involve IAWPers and their friends / family in coming up with ideas for games, the specifics of a game, programming, marketing, etc. Please ask questions or offer suggestions here or by pm. Anybody who wants to participate will be very welcome!
"There's an app for that!" :)
