Devolver Digital co-founder’s new company will specialise in ‘medically therapeutic games’

videogameschronicle.com:

One of the co-founders of Devolver Digital has formed a new company designed to make games that will help treat medical conditions.

DeepWell Digital Therapeutics is the creation of Devolver’s Mike Wilson, and Ryan Douglas, who is the founder and former CEO of international medical device company Nextern.

The pair, who are co-CEOs, created DeepWell last year, and the company has been quietly involved in “months of development, research and recruiting” before now being officially announced.

According to a statement released by the duo, DeepWell is “dedicated to creating best-in-class gameplay that can simultaneously entertain and deliver, enhance, and accelerate treatment for an array of globally pervasive health conditions.”

In an introduction video for the company (which can be viewed above), Wilson says: “DeepWell is a company that’s going to help a lot of people feel better in their bodies [and] in their minds, [and] we’re going to do it with video games.

“They’re not even gonna know it’s coming, because they’re just going to be having fun.”

Douglas added in a statement that the quality of the games themselves will take top priority, because it’ll be impossible to deliver their health benefits if nobody wants to play them.

“In order to produce games that provide tangible results, we’ve made engaging gameplay DeepWell’s first principle, since without engagement there is no treatment potential for any therapy,” Douglas explained.

“With our team of world-class developers at the helm, backed up by cutting-edge science and medical professionals, we’re building and repurposing games that look like, feel like, and play like pure entertainment, but that come imbued with potent digital therapeutics that align with our hardwired,