Following my prior post Fun &Serious Game Festival Bilbao , organizers today announced that AfterZoom has won the Award for the Best European Educational Serious Game. The first educational project by Abylight , AfterZoom is a "Serious Game" that teaches through entertainment. “We have added an educational component that can be gradually learnt without the need of lessons or exams ,” says company CEO Nacho GarcĂa. AfterZoom turns the Nintendo DSi/3DS camera into a virtual microscope to find microscopic, capture and take care of them, using chemical substances to keep them alive and healthy. “Players thus learn, without noticing it, that there are different organic domains they had never heard of (bacteria, archaea, etc.) and kingdoms (Animalia, Protista, Fungi, Plantae). The video game, entirely developed and marketed by the Catalan firm, was produced with a subsidy of the Ministry of Culture, which has “contributed to significantly improve i
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