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Brenton'Word Finder', Bringing Back Edutainment At Last?
December 12th 2007 04:53
****DISCLAIMER****
I made this game, I poured by heart and soul into it, so please excuse me but I'm going to really just going to be promoting the game.
Edutainment is a great under utilized concept, the idea is that media that can be entertaining can be used to teach people (particularly children) about things. Unfortunately it has been mostly lost over the years, educational games are no longer fun and instead are tiresome and troubling. Often times Edutainment software is just typical questions or puzzles you would get on a school pop quiz with pretty pictures thrown in to give the illusion it's a game on the outside.
Word Finder on the other hand is a game first and educational second. While the game is not yet complete (and it is impossible to lose in its current state) it shows great promise in finally teaching kids in a fun and entertaining way.
The purpouse of the game is simple, you are given a word and you have to find the image of the word. For instance if the word is 'Apple' you will have to find an apple in the game. The game is made mostly for kids though of course can be re-used for other purpouses. For instance it has non-English character support so it can be rigged up to teach non-English words. The following demo demonstrates the game in action with Japanese:
After months and months of hard work the game is finally finished, or at least the demo is. To be able to play the game you must download the isplaylang=en" target="_blank">DirectX and PhysX runtimes. The game can be downloaded via Rapidshare.
Screenshots
I made this game, I poured by heart and soul into it, so please excuse me but I'm going to really just going to be promoting the game.
Edutainment is a great under utilized concept, the idea is that media that can be entertaining can be used to teach people (particularly children) about things. Unfortunately it has been mostly lost over the years, educational games are no longer fun and instead are tiresome and troubling. Often times Edutainment software is just typical questions or puzzles you would get on a school pop quiz with pretty pictures thrown in to give the illusion it's a game on the outside.
Word Finder on the other hand is a game first and educational second. While the game is not yet complete (and it is impossible to lose in its current state) it shows great promise in finally teaching kids in a fun and entertaining way.
The purpouse of the game is simple, you are given a word and you have to find the image of the word. For instance if the word is 'Apple' you will have to find an apple in the game. The game is made mostly for kids though of course can be re-used for other purpouses. For instance it has non-English character support so it can be rigged up to teach non-English words. The following demo demonstrates the game in action with Japanese:
After months and months of hard work the game is finally finished, or at least the demo is. To be able to play the game you must download the isplaylang=en" target="_blank">DirectX and PhysX runtimes. The game can be downloaded via Rapidshare.
Screenshots
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