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His objective is to propose an educational game to: - families, parents who would like their children to play a game while learning more about this Global World they live in; - adults who would like to search for information on the Worldwide Geography in the Atlas and test or improve their knowledge by playing the Game; - schools who would like to use a software to teach Geography.
To play the Game, the user chooses the continent(s) and the topics for the questions among 8 categories: - Territories
- Capitals
- Flags
- Land and Water Borders
- Currencies
- Numbers
- Codes
- Voyage, an exclusive concept by which a player learns about the location of territories by crossing borders or even "transplaning" from a dependency to the country it belongs to in order to reach the land of arrival in a minimum of clicks.
The player may choose to play with more than one category and decides if he/she wants to get questions at random or with their worse scores.
The player either gives a direct answer or get 'help' thanks to up to 15 clues and up to 4 multiple choices (3, 6, 9 and 12 choices).
After having responded, the player learns even more since all 15 clues are displayed giving the:
- country's map
- continent's map with an arrow pointing to the relevant country - name of the capital and its location on the map
- name of the continent
- territory it belongs to, if any
- list of the main cities/islands and their location on the map
- list of dependencies and divisions
- land and water areas in Sq. Miles or Sq. Km
- land borders and coastlines in Miles or Kilometres
- list of the neighbouring countries
- list of "bordering" Oceans, Seas and Gulfs and their location on the map
- the currency
- the internet and currency codes, and the driving side
- the official language(s)
- the flag
The maximum scores vary depending on the number of selected continents. It will be easier to respond if the player chooses only the North American continent (there are only 3 countries and of course only 3 possible answers). Scores also vary on the clues required to find the right answer and on the use of the multiple choices. Users have access to detailed summary reports of their scores, a way to visualise the areas of potential improvement.
GeoEdu is available for download at:
http://www.geoedu.info
The Atlas is and will always be free.
The Game is offered for a free trial for North, Central and South America. The code to play with the entire world is US$11.50 (currency exchange rate depending) or 8.25€. This code allows the user to play with the entire world for an unlimited period. The code also gives access to the future updates and allows the export of scores.
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