Aims

The Bling it on game was designed to promote Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy (FLLN) programmes and is a means of:

• engaging and motivating reluctant offender learners,
• improving their skills,
• encouraging the maintenance and enhancement of links with their families and communities and
• promoting transitions into further learning, volunteering and employment.

From our experience of developing immersive learning games, we knew that using a driving game to deliver Basic Skills would be an enticing environment to get offenders involved.

Based on this knowledge, we built a parallax scrolling ‘driving game’ environment that contains arcade style games. The games are a mixture of quick fire challenges and slightly longer games with more of a learning focus.

The player starts off on the road with a beat up, rusty car and by winning each game, the player can modify and improve their car to their own personal taste. Customising options include, getting a better engine, adding skirts and spoilers and changing the colours and wheels.

If you feel that a learning game approach might be suitable for your organisation, please contact DESQ.

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