WorldMotion
Run, ride, climb and row the world.
Most people on a cardio machine are watching the clock.
The screen in front of them can do almost anything, and what it usually does is count down.
WorldMotion turns that console into a game. You pick a real place and go there: a city, a mountain, a river, an ocean crossing. The machine is the controller. Speed up and you go faster, add incline and the road climbs, ease off when the coach tells you to.
There is one game for each machine. WorldRunner is the treadmill, WorldRider the bike, WorldClimber the stair climber, WorldRower the rower, WorldHandcycler the upper body ergometer and WorldStrider the elliptical. Along the way you collect passport stamps for the countries you cross, earn medals and titles, and take on side quests: outrun a chaser, stay ahead of a lava wave, ride a tidal bore, race a slime mold.
The point is the same as everything else I make. Something people already mean to do, made a little easier to keep doing.
The facts
- What it is
- A game for the screens on gym cardio machines
- The games
- WorldRunner, WorldRider, WorldClimber, WorldRower, WorldHandcycler and WorldStrider, one per machine
- The world
- 194 countries, 93 climbs, 42 waterways and more than 4,600 facts
- Along the way
- Passport stamps, medals, titles, side quests, a coach and heart rate zones
- Status
- Starting a pilot with gyms