Atari, company known for its dedication to the world of video games, has launched a new fitness app for iPhone and Android. Its name is Atari Fit and reward us if we use games while playing sports.
The immense possibilities for development that offers Android and creativity of the designers of applications, have made the Google mobile operating system, among other things, has become a good candidate for sports-related applications, whether general or specialized, and today many people use their smartphones to stay physically fit. Some examples of applications that can contribute to this are the famous Runtastic, Google Fit, which increasingly has more activities or some more specific as Subaru Skiing for lovers of this sport.
How Atari Fit works? This app has over 100 exercises to target different sports. We just have to use it at the same time we train and so we will earn points. These experience points can be used to unlock new fitness routines. The real potential of this app is that as we use it, we will win coins that can be used to unlock classic games of the company. Among them, we can find such legendary titles as Pong, Super Breakout or Centipede.
Surely, if we mention Atari, will sound to you all as a mythical company in relation to the field of video games, and therefore a new release would be expected somewhat aswell specialized in this field, and so, although only partly. Atari proposes to unite gamification and retro games with your app for smartphones, although the games are secondary, being sports the first.
If you wonder how the dynamics of gamification are introduced and what has to see Atari Fit with games, the answer is that we get points for doing exercises and they can unlock retro Atari games, but then there's another component of gamification, and is there a ranking of the best users and you can compete to be in it. Besides motivate us to exercise in exchange for classic games, the app is free, so the incentive to try is even bigger. Maybe its multiplayer mode is the most interesting feature, allowing us to join a team to train or compete in groups. We may also motivate other members or view the statistics of other groups and see how you can reach them overcome.
