LESSON STARTERS
OLD MAN'S JOURNEY
Old Man's Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope.
Players shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward, experiencing heartache and hope as they embark upon a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.
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GOOSE GAME
One struggle when it comes to students is
engaging them in writing. We try prompts,
extrinsic rewards and promises of free time,
yet we sometimes fall short of creating
student engagement for such an activity.
This is where games like Untitled Goose
Game comes in and hooks your students.
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LABO KIT
What is Nintendo Labo? It is a series of add-ons for the Nintendo Switch. These DIY kits allow you to create from cardboard and bring ideas to life. You're designing and building solutions to work with the game provided, a merge of analog and digital. Use the Labo kits as the basis of your design-thinking class and engineering challenges.
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OVERCOOKED 2
Gaming and esports are not all about competition or defeating another in a contestant. It also can be about team building, collaboration, and cooperation.
Many schools start with an esports club that competes against other schools, in a very similar fashion to traditional athletics.
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BABA IS YOU
One of the most fundamental principles of game design is to introduce an idea to a player in its simplest form before slowly increasing the complexity. Baba Is You is a prime example of a game that accomplishes this seamlessly. The concept is simple (but complex when you really start playing): Every word is an object or state and every sentence is a rule.
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KILLER QUEEN BLACK
If you haven't seen the original out in the "real world", you can now have it for class use. Killer Queen Black is a retro arcade-style game that relies heavily upon teamwork and collaboration. Learn how we took that and create lesson starters for history, health and fitness, and even sprite animation.
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VALIENT HEARTS
Most of us discussed World War I in history class. But did you ever learn about it from a non-American perspective? Most likely, no. Valiant Hearts is a comic book brought to life in the form of a game. You play as four strangers, plus a dog, on a journey as their lives intertwine through the trenches of war. The story is based upon actual events and locations of the war, but the characters are original.
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SNIPPER CLIPS
SnipperClips is a hilariously fun game based solely on cooperation. If you and your team (up to four people) cannot communicate and work together, you will not complete the objectives. For those with students who need support with this skill (or even adults), this game promotes team building and collaboration amongst people.
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