BARK TREK

One problem that gamers often have is feeling motivated to maintain a consistent, active lifestyle. This can lead to physical and mental health issues such as muscle pain, eye strain, depression and anxiety. An increase in taking breaks and getting exercise can help minimize these effects. With this app and watch extension, I wanted to turn the goal of being more active into a game with in-app rewards that can turn into customizations. 

The game concept is that the user is a dog walker and is completing walking challenges by walking ‘cyber dogs’ from virtual clients that are given through notifications from the app. These messages will appear as the virtual client asking the user to walk their dog with varying distances. The watch extension of this app would give notifications to remind users to check their walking challenges. Once in the watch app, the user would be able to accept walk requests and go for a walk in real time while an animation of the virtual client’s cyber dog walks alongside them on their watch.