Supporting New Zealand as a place where everybody is safe and loved by harnessing the power of immersive games technology to foster the development of life skills and positive lifestyle choices.
LGP Games Advisories The LGP presents these LGP Games Advisories and associated links with our compliments on a best endeavours and no responsibility basis:
Demolition City 2 http://www.notdoppler.com/demolitioncity2.php Game Description: Set explosive charges on buildings to bring them down effectively without damaging surrounding objects and leaving a rubble pile under a certain height. Player select the appropriate explosives and amounts to get the job done. Target Age: Any Game Tags: Physics, explosives, demolition, safety Educational Tags: Planning, preparation, execution, review Platforms supported: On line Flash Game Cost: Free
DinoSawUs http://www.dinosawus.com/ Game Description: DinoSawUs is an online virtual world where players can explore the fun areas that make up DinoSawUs, go on adventures, communicate with other players, and play individual or head-to-head games, all in an environment that’s completely safe. Target Age: Children aged 6 - 11 Game Tags:Dinosaur, online world, adventures, head to head games, daily challenges, mini games, dress up, colour in, Educational Tags: Problem solving, learning through reading, safe chat. Suitability for Target Age:Appropriate for children Platforms supported:Online game accessible through a computer Browser Cost: Free with opportunity to purchase in-game items with Credit Card Evony http://www.evony.com/ Game Description: An MMORPG strategy game where you play the character of the King/Queen and are responsible for building and maintaining a successful town/city/kingdom. You begin the game as a minor lord of one small village, and with work, strategy, teamwork and maybe a little luck, you grow your village to be the capital of a mighty empire. Target Age:Teen to adult Game Tags: MMORPG, Strategy, OK graphics Educational Tags: Leadership, business skills, team/aliance building. Teaches strategy and leadership skills. There are multiple paths that a player can go down and this opens up great avenues of enquiry as to why choose a particular path. Suitability for Target Age:No violence or adult imagery, appears to be advertising free. Platforms supported:Internet browser. Cost: There is a facility for spending money if the player wants to to accelerate their development.
Games for Change http://gamesforchange.org/play Game Description: A set of games identified and selected by 'Games for Change' as games that engage with contemporary social issues in meaningful ways to foster a more just, equitable and / or tolerant society. These games have been created by cross-disciplinary teams from around the world and aim to serve the public interest.
Hectors World http://www.hectorsworld.com/island/index.html Parent Info:http://hectorsworld.netsafe.org.nz Game Description: Various activities for kids Target Age: 2 - 9 year olds. Game Tags: Interaction, life skills, safe internet use, digital literacy, media literacy, social networking Educational Tags: Navigation through "click and go" images Suitability for Target Age: Virtual world designed to teach children about safe use of the internet. Cost: Free for 2 - 9 year olds
FunSchool http://funschool.kaboose.com Game Description: Over 200 education-orientated games covering a wide variety of concepts. Target Age: Wide Suitability for Target Age: Memory, mathematics, nature, spelling, history, chemistry Cost: Free KidZui http://www.kidzui.com Game Description:KidZui is a free Web browser, search engine and online playground that is accessed through a browser giving moderated access to over a million websites that include 300 games, videos and pictures. New content is added daily. Target Age:3 - 12 years Game Tags:Flash based games, 2D, Arcade, Action Games, Educational Games, Games for Girls, Puzzles, Racing Games, Sports Games Educational Tags: Math games, geography games, vocabulary games Suitability for Target Age:Users must set up an account and state their age. With that information Kidzui limits the selection of games available to only those appropriate for the users age. Platforms Supported: PC Cost:Free for basic version which provides access to all games. Full membership costs as at June 2010: USD7.95/month MiniClip Educational http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/education.php Game Description: 15 educational fun games involving letters, numbers, trivia questions and memory. Target Age: Any Game Tags: Words, letters, numbers, trivia Educational Tags: Letters, numbers, trivia questions and memory Platforms supported: On-line Flash games
Game Description:Player creates and takes care of a virtual "moshi monster" living in a large online world that offers a wide variety of player activities. Target Age: 5 - 50 Game Tags:math games, geography games, vocabulary games Educational Tags:Looking after something. Cost: Free Pixie Hollow http://pixiehollow.go.com/
Game Name: Pixie Hollow
Game Description: A young female Child’s game where they create Fairies based on Disney’s “Tinker Bell”. In essence you get to create and customise your own Fairy, fly around meadow’s, meeting and chatting to other fairies, whilst playing games (e.g.Baking, hand-eye coordination, mouse control) customising your fairy by earning points playing the games as well as collecting Badges that you get to Show-case in your “Leaf Journal”.
Target Age: 6+ Years (predominately for girls).
Game Tags: Rich in Graphics, Fairies, Chat, Hand-eye Co-ordination.
Educational Tags: Internet Safe, Social Skills, Friends, Four Seasons, Problem Solving, Adventure
Suitability for Target Age: Like most games, there is an area to upgrade to a full membership, if desired, to get extra functionality. A lot of content about “parental controls” and has a safe chat dictionary which enables only words from the chat dictionary to be used. Two options are Speed Chat and Speed Chat Plus. No on-line advertising is accepted on this site.
Platforms supported:
PC – 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 – Adobe Flash 10 or higher, P3 800 mhz or faster, 256mb ram
Mac – OS 10.4.6, Adobe Flash 10 or higher, PowerPC G4, 256mb ram
Cost: Free (Extended membership options are USD5.95 per month, USD29.95 Semi-Annual, USD57.95 Annual
Reasons for this being an LGP Game: Child Friendly, No "Blood-and-Guts", Safe Chat, Disney Friendly, Parental Control Area
Game Description: A logic challenge game to work out the best way to demolish a building. This gets increasingly challenging and requires more skill and planning as the player advances. Target Age: 8+ Game Tags: 2D, Side scrolling Educational Tags:Logic, planning, tactics, engineering, physics, demolition Suitability for Target Age:OK for any age, no personal details requested Platforms Supported: Web based Cost: Free
LGP Games Advisories
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