Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa launches Wheel of Fertility: a game about choice, chance, and pregnancy

The interactive online game was designed to help people explore factors related to their sexual wellbeing in ways they might not have thought about before.

Working with Christchurch-based game developers CerebralFix, the aim was to come up with a new way of delivering content about the impact of lifestyle, menstruation, STIs, and more on sexual and reproductive health.

The browser-based game is available on Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa’s website and can be played on smartphone or desktop computer. Players can input random data, like age, height, weight, lifestyle factors, contraceptives, and menstrual phase, then spin the “Wheel of Fertility” to “fool around and find out” the chances of getting pregnant or catching an STI. Early play testers have praised the fun design and enjoyed playing the game and learning new things about contraception and the menstrual cycle.

Chief Executive Jackie Edmond is excited to see the game come to life. “Having seen a conference presentation about how to improve people’s knowledge on what impacts their fertility, I wondered if we could make this information available for clients to ‘self-serve,’ but in a fun, easily digestible way.”