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Educational Games

Started by ArgentinaGuy Dec 9, 2001 at 6:43 PM 3 replies 400+ views
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ArgentinaGuy
ArgentinaGuy
Hi, i''m an student in Argentina, we have a project to develop a educational game for children, but we are out of ideas. Any idea? Thanks.
eng3d
eng3d
"steal" the idea from another game. such Zeta Multimedia educational game.

For experience, to childrens like a colorfull with many sound, not a complicated game. Snoopy (a old game) is very funny, even me, spend game with this =).

The common :
-draw a room, with many tools.
-then when you push with the mouse in some tools, it made something such play a sound, bounce (for ballons), and more..

-----------------------------------------------"Cuando se es peon, la unica salida es la revolución"
ArgentinaGuy
ArgentinaGuy
Thanks,

But i think a game for children from 7 to 11, we want to develop something like action game or rpg, any idea?

How we make that a child learn from an action game?

Another fact is that the game is going to distributed free en poor schools that mean no hardware acceleration an other things.
Anonymouse Poster
Anonymouse Poster
I wouldn''t recommend an RPG or action game for that age set. It would be pure schlock - at least all the ones I''ve seen are. I mean, I remember one where you were a "diabetic superhero" with the amazing power to hop up and down, and like between levels you had to pump the right amount of insulin into you or something.

No offense intended at all, but what kind of action or RPG game could it be? "Captain Clean-Lungs battles the evil forces of Tobacco-Industry-Man?
Sqeek.
Forcas
Forcas
I think you''re on the right track. My favorite genres were action and RPG when I was in that age group. Davis has made a lot of action edutainment games.... like Math Blaster and Treasure Mountain.

Do you have a specific education topic that you need to make your game about?

-Forcas


"Elvis is alive. He is Barney the purple dinosaur. He is the pied piper that leads our children into the wages of sin and eternal damnation."



-Forcas writeln("Does this actually work?");

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