Support Breathing Games
Breathing Games co-creates free and open-source games and controllers for respiratory health with people who live with a condition, caregivers and researchers. The association is a Swiss non-profit of public interest, and its accounts have been audited since 2019.
What your gift does
- It keeps the games and the hardware plans free for everyone to use, adapt and translate.
- Most of the value comes from volunteers: about 48 000 known hours, valued at 1.7 million Swiss francs. A gift pays what volunteering cannot cover: game development, game jams, hardware prototypes, translations and taxes.
- Every year the accounts show where the money came from and what it paid for: see the financing tables on the association page.
Ways to give
- Bank transfer to IBAN CH63 0839 0035 3688 1000 3 (Breathing Games Association, Riant-Bosquet 2, 1216 Cointrin)
- Follow the campaign: subscribe to the newsletter at the bottom of any page.
Tax and certificate
The association is recognised as being of public interest: your donation is tax-deductible, in general up to 20% of your net income (the minimum and the ceiling depend on your canton).
A donation certificate is issued from CHF 300 per year.
Documents
- Statutes, version 8
- Tax exemption decision
- Financial statements 2025 (expected at the end of November 2026)
- Audit report 2024
Six publications to start with
Each has a DOI. Titles are given in the language of publication.
- Validation of a portable game controller to assess peak expiratory flow against conventional spirometry in children: Cross-sectional study JMIR Serious Games · 2021
- Acceptability of serious games in pediatric asthma education and self-management: pilot study JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting · 2022
- Developing digital games to address airway clearance therapy in children with cystic fibrosis: Participatory design process JMIR Serious Games · 2018
- Game jams to co-create respiratory health games prototypes as Participatory Research methodology Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research · 2018
- Breathing Games global report 2014 ⋅ 2023 Zenodo · 2024
- Asthma in the digital world Academic Press (Elsevier) · 2022
What this does not promise
Games and hardware are research tools in development. Please seek professional advice (caregivers, engineers, lawyers, etc) before using or reproducing them.
Here, “clinical” means tested with people receiving care, in hospital or at home. None of these studies is a randomised trial: they show feasibility and acceptability, not efficacy.