Type:Rider

Title: Type:Rider

Publisher: BULKYPIX

Subject Area: A typographic videogame.

Summary: Encourages players to learn about type by exploring a world of fonts. It’s a Mario-style game. It has amazing graphics and music.

Ease of Use: It is relatively easy to use. It’s is the kind of ipad game that is easier for children than for adults; very intuitive. 3 different control modes.

Skill Set: Basic skill is to know how to read, and very basic gravitational understanding might help, but not required of course.

Program Design Features:

Pace might be a little slow, but learning about fonts takes time!

Tutorial is great and fun.

Player can loose, you keep trying until the player overcomes the obstacle

Good track keeper, show progress.

Program Comments:

The most impressive aspect of the game is its graphics and music, which makes sense because the games is about fonts! It is very engaging and makes you want to keep coming back. It can be frustrating, but it comes with several gratifications. It is very clear what they are trying to teach, and also very clear abut the ‘gaming’ aspect of the application. In other words, the whole design is intended to be easily understood. It combines technology (ipad) with tradition, the text is meant to be as if it is on paper by its look and sound.

Problem Solving Skills:

Identifying relationships

Reasoning

Gathering information

Procedural thinking

Record keeping

Stimulate imaginative thinking

Braking complex problems into smaller parts

Fun Factor: High, because it engages into a world of its own, still highly connected the real history!