This 26 -year -old Italian is creating the first video game with wheelchairs characters (inspired by Mario Kart)

His name is Silvio Binca, he is 26 years old and a diagnosis that would frighten anyone: desminopathy, a very rare genetic disease that affects the musculoskeletal apparatus and affects just sixty people in the world. Since he was 13 he moves in a wheelchair, with respirator and peg accompanying him every day. Still, he does not call himself sick, but rather a boy with different skills and dreams as big as the world.

Silvio lives near Lucca and has already faced a complex path: diagnosis at just 4 years old, a heart transplant at the Niguarda in Milan, long hospitalizations and therapies. But his spirit knows no surrender. Next to him there are the family, the girlfriend, the friends and supporters of his association, a reality that he founded to give voice to those who, like him, face a little known and often ignored condition. At the same time aims to raise funds for scientific research on rare diseases.

A video game that breaks down barriers

But above all Silvio does not want pietism: he wants to create change. For this reason he decided to conceive the first inclusive video game in the world with protagonists in a customizable wheelchair launched on slopes full of challenges, power-ups and obstacles.

The inspiration comes from famous titles such as Mario Kart and Subway Surfers, but without spacecrafts or rockets. Here the goal is not just having fun: the message is that even those with physical limitations can live adrenaline experiences and overcome obstacles, inside and out of play.

The project includes a playable demo, a well -kept and captivating graphics and a gameplay designed for smartphones and PCs, but creating a video game requires time, resources and skills. For this reason, it has created a fundraiser that will serve to finance technical development, improve graphics and pay those who work on the project.

An inclusive arcade racing that is not designed for disabled people, but for anyone: an engaging experience capable of speaking to everyone by overturning the stereotype that binds disability to a limit. In the video game, in fact, the wheelchairs players are not a appearance but the protagonists.

A book that educates the little ones

Waiting to complete the video game, Silvio has already given birth to another project: the Thehandycapped Colourbook, a coloring book available on Amazon that tells stories of characters with disabilities transforming the differences into superpowers. The idea at the base is to teach children from an early age to see diversity as a value and not as a barrier.

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