We would like to talk to you, as on other occasions, about the positive aspects of video games. And it is that these are used as educational tools. Recently, through video games it is explained to children, what is COVID-19, the importance of washing hands or maintaining safe distances. We will not tire of repeating that the best way to learn is through play. And if this game comes virtually, and on screen, then it will be time to adapt.
Today, August 29, World Video Game Day, or Gamer's Day, is celebrated. On many occasions, mothers demonize video games, and nothing attracts our children's attention more than screens. At least in a general way. In this sense, we are the ones who should mark the limits.
The video game Can you save the world? against the pandemic
The smallest of the house, especially now that the school season begins, must also learn and assimilate the importance of washing your hands, wearing a mask, keeping your distance. There are several ways to make them understand why we should follow these procedures, and video games are one of them.
The psychologist and professor Richard Wiseman from the University of Hertfordshire, and the designer Martin Jacon, created a video game a few months ago so that children understand the importance of certain aspects when we go out in the street in a health crisis. The video game is called Can You Save the World?, translated, Can You Save the World? The game is totally Loano train station and you can access it from any platform to download it.
The intention of the game is yes we all cooperate by maintaining a safe distance and wearing the mask will prevent contagion. In the video game, keeping the necessary distance is associated with a positive experience. That is why happy music is listened to, lives are saved or points are recovered thanks to the masks.
The Covid Game, the video game for the whole family
This video game The Covid Game, is available for free over the Internet. It is available for computer, mobile or tablet. It has been designed by the Institut La Valira de la Seu d'Urgell in Lleida. The video game consists of four elements: a person, the Covid-19 virus, a house and a hospital.
Person he has to go home to confine himself before the virus touches you, infects you and begins to multiply. The idea is to let the children experiment with the different possibilities of the game. One of the options is that the little ones can take refuge in the hospital after being infected. Thus, in addition to being cured, they manage to reduce the pandemic each time a virus, which represents an infected person.
One of the advantages of this video game, compared to others that deal with the same idea, is that it is designed as a activity to do as a family and for children and adults to reflect on what happens in the game.
The Cuban video game that teaches not to spread the coronavirus
We continue with another video game proposal for children to fight coronavirus infections. On this occasion, it has been the Young Computer and Electronics Club (JCCE) of Cuba who makes this educational video game: Fighting Covid-19.
The objective of the video game is that through interaction you learn how to act responsibly at each stage of the pandemic. Guidelines are also given so that people, adults and children, can protect themselves against the coronavirus. The format of the video game is that through different boxes, with different difficulties, the main measures, precautions or consequences that the spread of the disease brings are known.
The download can be done from the portal Ludox video games. It is available both in a computer format and in its version for mobiles with Android operating system. And it can be played individually against the computer or competitively, between two players.