LudoMedic: The French Serious Games Platform for Children in Hospital

LudoMedic, formerly called MediKids, was announced as a platform for serious games about the hospitalization of children between 6 and 14. It was developed by CCCP Studio and aimed at three groups: children, parents and healthcare professionals. The platform combined a game engine, a dialog engine with speech synthesis for children who cannot read yet, and three independent healthcare pathways covering MRI, pediatric surgery and chemotherapy. Each pathway came with mini-games and educational activities, and a community website was to provide free modules to the public.

The stated goals were to simulate what a hospitalized child goes through, to inform parents about the care processes involving their children and to help physicians talk with their patients. The official release was scheduled for December 2011. A second layer for training health workers to diagnose an emergency was planned for August 2012. A consortium built the project: EURA SANTE contributed medical expertise, Orange was the technical partner for speech synthesis and research labs, and universities handled the pedagogical side.

CCCP, short for Confluence Composite de Concepteurs et Prestataires, is a video game studio based in Valenciennes, in northern France. It has worked on serious games from its founding in 2005. In 2008 the French government named northern France a region of excellence for serious games, and a pilot program called the Regional Image Cluster, centered on Valenciennes, set out to fund 20 serious game prototypes in 2009. The Valenciennes Chamber of Commerce and Industry incubated CCCP in its digital workshop facilities, and it had already set up the animation school Supinfocom and its sibling Supinfogame.

In November 2026, the address www.ludomedic.com showed a French home page titled as the video-game medical platform. The page now sorts the games by audience: families, adults, seniors and professionals, each with a link to play for free. It also offers hospital solutions such as touch kiosks, software licenses and DVDs, and it states that LudoMedic is a trademark registered by CCCP in 2011.

Every other address on the site shows the same home page, so nothing shows that any single game page exists. The directory therefore lists LudoMedic as unconfirmed. The site shows that the platform is still presented, now with audiences beyond the children's hospital stays it was announced for.