As Christmas approaches, we continue our selection of essential games with Brice N’Guessan, editorial director of Video Games Magazine. After the ideal games to play with several people, we now recommend the best educational games to you.
franceinfo: Brice, we start with Brain Academy…
Brice N’Guessan: Yes, it’s a brainstorm available on the Nintendo Switch console. The game revolves around five themes that will make your brain work: identification, memory, analysis, mathematics and perception.
On the program 20 mini-games that put you to the test for one minute. The game has the particularity of being playable by four at the same time, with the possibility for each player to choose his level of difficulty. An option that brings together children, parents and grandparents around the console.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDBAmcw-YcE
For the youngest, Brice, there is PowerZ, a French game!
PowerZis the little educational revelation of the year. This French program, available on Mac and PC, intended for 6-12 year olds, uses play as a gateway to learning. PowerZ, it’s a real little adventure game with quests to learn or improve in different areas: math, geometry, astronomy, physics, vocabulary, etc.
To make the experience as complete as possible, parents will be able, via a dedicated application, to follow their child’s progress, know their favorite subjects or even control play time.
We change register to devote ourselves exclusively to history thanks to the Discovery Tour, from the French publisher Ubisoft
Video game fans undoubtedly know the saga Assassin’s Creed… For several years the publisher has been offering a historical variation of its action games, to turn them into an interactive encyclopedia.
After Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece, this year it’s the Vikings’ turn! Through different characters, you will discover this period of the High Middle Ages, as well on the side of the Vikings, as of the Anglo-Saxons. The interest is to discover or rediscover this part of history through a graphic universe gripping realism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPZ-vNtGLR0
Finally we end with The video game workshop, to learn to program …
The Video Game Workshop, it’s a pure Nintendo creation that wants to teach you, through seven lessons, the basics of programming in order to make your own video game.
No line of code, no need to be a computer scientist, it’s very simple and easy to access. You will be able to create all kinds of games: from platform to racing, including puzzle games.