Studio 1 - Week 2 - Related Works

Magic school explores inside the earth

The Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth was a edutainment point&click video game targeting primary school aged students. The player explores 7 different locations and in time, learns how the environment has produced different material based on location. Each location also has its own unique set of mini games that help fulfil the objective of the game. The bus itself is also a HUB where players can play mini-games such as cooking rocks and cleaning objects found from the several different locations. The games were popular and were often rated very highly as its delivery of information has a great balance of being both educational and entertaining. 

The ClueFinders 

ClueFinders was an educational video game that plays as a point&click. The game was aimed at primary school aged students with its focus on “multi-subject by grade” programs. Each different game was aimed at a different year level and had different activities within the story that focuses on Maths, Comprehension, Problem Solving and Spelling. The developer wanted to ensure that players would actually be able to learn from the educational aspect of the game so they introduced a system called ADAPT. Assessing Abilities, Developing Skills, Adjusting Levels, Providing Help, Tracking Progress.