Developing a Virtual Reality Serious Game to Recreational Therapy Using iPlus Methodology

Serious Games (SGs) are used in various areas, such as training, advertising, health fields and communications. Within the subset of serious games that appeal to health care systems, we propose a game that focuses on mental health treatment. In order to ensure that an SG meets a user's expectations, it must be designed using the appropriate methodology for the context, which is user-centered and includes experts in disability, pedagogy and game design. The objective of this research work is to present the construction of a virtual reality serious game for Recreational therapy as a study case of iPlus, a methodology for the design of SGs, which is based on the previous idea. iPlus allows the conception of educational SGs, based on a participative, user-centered approach.