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Step 1: Identifying the [Overwhelmingly Obvious] problem

When game developer Sam Glassenberg’s daughter was diagnosed at age five, life changed overnight. Suddenly, running a videogame studio became his “second job” as he embraced his new role as a stand-in pancreas. The onboarding process was brutal and unforgiving.

As a game developer, Sam chronicled the experience in a diary/blog.

Sam realized that the onboarding journey of Type 1 Diabetes somehow takes all of the best-practices for designing a fun game and somehow inverts them to create the opposite effect – a punishing experience for patient and caregiver alike. For this reason, he titled the blog “The Worst. Game. Ever.” which he eventually published here:

https://www.worstgameever.org

It was this experience that would eventually provide the inspiration for actually fixing the problem, using the neuroscience-based design of videogames.