World-Class Games + Ergonomic Cardio Fitness
HeartRate Games provides the missing link between video games
and cardio fitness machines, enabling game publishers and cardio machine manufacturers to bring cardio-intensive fitness game solutions to market.
HeartRate Games provides the missing link between video games
and cardio fitness machines, enabling game publishers and cardio machine manufacturers to bring cardio-intensive fitness game solutions to market.
The Market Faces a Technical Hurdle
Nintendo shows that the potential market for fitness games is as large, if not larger, than the existing video game market. Fitness games won't reach their full market potential, however, unless consumers think they're at least as fun to play as sedentary games.
In order for cardio-intensive fitness games to reach the broadest possible audience, game developers will have to solve the challenge of providing an equivalent level of playability for every user regardless of the user’s body type, level of fitness, or brand of cardio device. This challenge can’t be solved entirely in game code or entirely on the cardio device but requires an interface that removes device and user dependencies for the game developer.
In order for cardio-intensive fitness games to reach the broadest possible audience, game developers will have to solve the challenge of providing an equivalent level of playability for every user regardless of the user’s body type, level of fitness, or brand of cardio device. This challenge can’t be solved entirely in game code or entirely on the cardio device but requires an interface that removes device and user dependencies for the game developer.
Unified Interface Between Cardio Devices and Games
Over 50 different brands of cardio machines are sold in the United States. Despite multiple attempts, cardio machine manufacturers do not adhere to a single interface standard for connecting cardio machines and software such as fitness games. The result is an incredibly fragmented market for game-enabled cardio machines.
HeartRate Games solves this problem with a patent-pending application programming interface (API) that serves as a unified development platform between software applications and hardware devices such as fitness game controllers or more traditional cardio machines.
HeartRate Games solves this problem with a patent-pending application programming interface (API) that serves as a unified development platform between software applications and hardware devices such as fitness game controllers or more traditional cardio machines.
Solutions to Common Fitness Game Development Challenges
HeartRate Games' API enables developers to easily overcome a number of fitness game development challenges and shields them from having to understand exercise physics or deal with cardio device dependencies in order to create fitness games that work with HeartRate Games-enabled exercise bike devices.
Equivalent Playability Across All Kinds of Users
HeartRate Games enables developers to build games that provide consistent playability and exercise intensity regardless of each player's body type, fitness level or model of cardio fitness device. These differences are modulated at the API level so game developers can ensure that all players enjoy fun game play and fair multi-player competition.
A HeartRate Games-enabled fitness game will work equally well across all devices that adhere to the HeartRate Games hardware spec. The API enables game developers to customize game I/O and provide rewards in a way that is appropriate to each player. Parents and their kids can play fitness games together without someone being left behind.
Games Work Across Multiple Cardio Machine Models
Because our bike controller specification can be implemented by any stationary bike manufacturer, games developed for our mass-market bicycle controller will work with any HeartRate Games-enabled stationary bike. This means that market-competitive stationary bike fitness game solutions can be created at a fraction of the upfront cost of proprietary development.
Third Party Developer Support
HeartRate Games helps game publishers speed the pace of fitness game development by enabling third-party developers to implement the API into new game development projects, turning out a sedentary version and a fitness version of the same game for limited incremental cost. The API can also be used to upgrade existing sedentary games into new fitness game titles, enabling a source of fitness games at a much lower development cost compared to building games from scratch.
HeartRate Games has also anticipated and solved a number of specific game development and playability challenges, giving game developers a head start when creating cardio-intensive fitness games.
Equivalent Playability Across All Kinds of Users
HeartRate Games enables developers to build games that provide consistent playability and exercise intensity regardless of each player's body type, fitness level or model of cardio fitness device. These differences are modulated at the API level so game developers can ensure that all players enjoy fun game play and fair multi-player competition.
A HeartRate Games-enabled fitness game will work equally well across all devices that adhere to the HeartRate Games hardware spec. The API enables game developers to customize game I/O and provide rewards in a way that is appropriate to each player. Parents and their kids can play fitness games together without someone being left behind.
Games Work Across Multiple Cardio Machine Models
Because our bike controller specification can be implemented by any stationary bike manufacturer, games developed for our mass-market bicycle controller will work with any HeartRate Games-enabled stationary bike. This means that market-competitive stationary bike fitness game solutions can be created at a fraction of the upfront cost of proprietary development.
Third Party Developer Support
HeartRate Games helps game publishers speed the pace of fitness game development by enabling third-party developers to implement the API into new game development projects, turning out a sedentary version and a fitness version of the same game for limited incremental cost. The API can also be used to upgrade existing sedentary games into new fitness game titles, enabling a source of fitness games at a much lower development cost compared to building games from scratch.
HeartRate Games has also anticipated and solved a number of specific game development and playability challenges, giving game developers a head start when creating cardio-intensive fitness games.