Card Games
Decks, prompts, battle systems, cooperative mechanics, and social play formats.
Games and cards
Playable health education for abstract experiences, real conversations, and memorable choices.
Ryan creates playful systems that help people understand, talk about, and emotionally process health experiences.
Design principle
The work is about engagement, not gimmicks.
The games turn abstract health experiences into concrete choices, characters, rewards, trade-offs, and social moments. They can support education, community building, campaign activation, conference engagement, or digital product thinking.
Cards and tabletop systems are especially powerful because they make invisible experiences physical: something people can hold, compare, swap, discuss, and remember.
Tactile design
Playable systems make invisible experiences easier to hold, compare, and discuss.
Cards can become prompts, powers, challenges, rewards, booth handouts, collectible campaign assets, or the foundation of a bigger tabletop and digital world.
Formats
From conference handouts to full game systems.
Collectable Cards
DiaPals, monsters, powers, quests, status effects, campaign artefacts, and rewards.
Educational Decks
Clinic, school, family, and charity resources that create better conversations.
Digital Prototypes
Mini-games, app engagement loops, behavioural prompts, and reward systems.
Card system thinking
Fantasy mechanics can carry emotional truth without becoming clinical or childish.
A diabetes monster can represent pressure, fatigue, hypo anxiety, device overwhelm, or social misunderstanding. A DiaPal can represent support, skill, humour, identity, or recovery. The mechanics help people discuss real experience at a safer distance.
DiaPal
Steady Spark
Support power: turns a hard check-in into a shared moment.
Monster
Snack Shadow
Challenge power: appears when routine, mood, and timing collide.
Action
Reset Round
Play this when the story needs a pause, not a judgement.
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