Bronkie and Trakie's adventures can help you learn important things about asthma. But please remember, this game does not tell you how you should take care of your own asthma.
Your doctor can give you an asthma plan that's best for you.
Years ago, meteors struck San Saurian. Explosions filled the air with thick and filthy dust. So the might wind machine was made to clear the air so everyone could breathe. Then Mr. Rexo stole the machine, hid its pieces all over San Saurian and forced other dinosaurs to protect the pieces. Now the dust is coming back! Help Bronkie and Trakie find the lost machine pieces. But don't forget to manage their asthma along the way.
Level 1: City
Along with an animation on how to use an inhaler, you get a hint from Hazel: Bronchial tubes carry air to the lungs. Their walls will swell and tighten when your asthma gets worse.
Before a stage begins, you'll be told of asthma triggers to avoid. For this stage, it is dust sacks and cig smoke. By touching these things, the screen will go dark, and if it gets too dark, you've lost a life.
From the upper-left, you have an indicator showing how well your asthma is faring. Green is good, yellow is your caution color, and red is dangerous. If you leave it red for too long, you will gradually take damage and eventually die. Also, if your peak flow is anywhere below green, you cannot use your breath attack. Next to that is the amount of breath attacks you have, and below that is your health. It takes a while for one of your three eggs to go down, but it eventually happens, and if that happens, you technically lose a life. You can have up to six eggs. If you lose a life, you're going all the way back to the beginning of the stage, as there are no checkpoints. Thankfully, the white icons with the red first aid crosses will recover some of your health.
The controls are pretty simple. Left and Right let you move around, Down lets you crouch, Y lets you attack, A lets you use your breath attack (should you have one) and B lets you jump. If you jump into anything that acts as a ladder or a horizontal wire, you can use Up and Down to grab them. Use Up and Down to climb up and down ladders, and use Left and Right to climb across horizontal wires.
The lungs icon gives you a breath attack. This is a more powerful attack than your stick, which you can stick forward at enemies by pressing Y.
Early on in the stage, you'll meet a green dinosaur with a hunchback, who will ask you a question. If you get it right, you'll be able to continue through the stage. If you get it wrong, you'll have to look for Hazel in an earlier part of the stage to get the answer, then meet him again and answer another question. There will be three questions in a stage, and the game cycles through them at random.
The "Rx" icon and the red inhaler are the sick day plan and an emergency inhaler, respectively, and are needed to get 100% completion for a stage. You don't need to get them, but they make stages a lot easier, as the level design is a bit suspect throughout the game. If you can get them and get through the stage without touching asthma triggers, you can get a perfect round bonus and add an egg to your maximum health as well as breath attacks to add to your breath attack ammunition. If you do touch a trigger, you'll be forced to test your peak flow, then either use the inhaler or the Rx icon should your airflow get bad enough. To do that, press Select and you'll open up an asthma management menu. From here, you can test your peak flow, and you can also use one of your pick-ups to keep from losing a life. The inhaler gets your peak flow back up, as will the Rx icon, which acts as the sick day plan. By using the "test peak flow" option, you can see how to do it in real life; by using the sick day plan, you can get some very generic information about the sick day plan; and by using the inhaler, you can learn how to use an inhaler in real life. "Call for Help" is probably used in a two-player game, now that I think about it.
Enemies include purple guys who walk back and forth and bite, green guys who stay in place and spit projectiles and thin purple guys who run at you.
The red guy wearing white will give you a part piece if you answer his question correctly. You'll also have to answer their questions to move on, too.
By getting the sick day plan and the rescue inhaler and going through the whole stage without using them, we can get a ton of bonus point. Not running into any allergy triggers gives you five breath attacks.
Questions
Bronchial tubes are passageways that carry air
What happens when your asthma gets worse? All of these
Stage 1-2
Peak flow is the strongest breath you can blow into a peak flow meter. If your peak flow goes into the red zone or below half of your usual best, start your emergency plan.
Aside from cig smoke, you'll have to avoid actual smoke that comes out of the chimneys here.
Unlike the first stage, there are now platforms on buildings that move back and forth.
The blue pterodactyl will carry you to another area when you answer his question. All you have to do is leap onto his beak afterwards.
Questions
If your peak flow goes below half of your usual best, you should tell an adult right away and start my emergency plan
A peak flow meter measures my strongest breath
Stage 1-3
You can help control you asthma if you take your medicine as directed, stay away from your asthma triggers, and watch for early warning signs of asthma.
Aside from cig smoke, you'll have to deal with green chemical drips. Watch the wooden pipes; you'll barely be able to see the green pixels where the drops will come down from.
If you're lucky, you can find eggs to increase your maximum health by one unit. You can go up to six units
Questions
Is it a good idea to watch from asthma early warning signs? Yes, because then I can do something about it early
Which is true about asthma? I can help control asthma if I take my medicine as directed
Level 1 Boss
Name: Tank
Height: 5 Large Meteors
Weight: 4 Army Tanks
Hobbies: Spinning, science projects
To beat Tank, keep your distance, use your regular attack and back away when he lurches forward to avoid his tail swipe. That's it. That's all you have to do. He'll eventually cower in fear, and you'll be able to get a machine part and beat the first level.
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