You can’t fight malaria with mobile gaming. But…
Miguel Luengo realized that the problem with malaria is that to detect the parasites, specialists have to look at blood samples under a microscope. But there are too few specialists in the world to do that.
So, his idea was to speed up the diagnosis of malaria by hundreds of times by doing what NASA does when it pushes images to the public and crowdsources efforts to identify planets.
But instead of pushing out images of planets, he pushes out images of blood samples, and turns it into a mobile game. And instead of shooting aliens, you shoot malaria parasites on an image, and in doing so, you help identify the parasites in the body of an actual individual, fighting malaria through mobile gaming.
So, you can.