Footgaming Fun with Bookworm Adventure

Not only is Bookworm Adventures fun, but many have found it helps improve language skills. I started playing Bookworm Adventures roughly a year ago now and was mesmerized by the challenging gameplay and engaging personalities of the cast. The title’s core mechanic tasks the players with building words to defeat a string of fiendish monsters.This foundation is wrapped in lite RPG elements and a narrative, which push you forward and diversify the progression where needed. Together, these simple, distilled elements make for an enthralling title which is not only immensely enjoyable, but significantly aids in language development. We have used it in ExerLearning and FootGaming classrooms in grades 4-8 with great success. Teachers and students alike love Bookworm.BWA is rather educational or at least a requires a significant degree of brain power. When asked, “Is Bookworm first an enjoyment game or an educational game?” Tysen Henderson, of PopCap replied [in an interview with Daniel Johnson of GameSetWatch] “We always design our games with fun as the overriding goal. We never set out to make an educational game, nor have we ever modified a game in development in order to make it more educational.Turns out if you make a really solid, fun word game it will be educational simply by virtue of the fact that constructing words or dissecting words requires you to consider the structure of words, and ultimately push the boundaries of your word-building abilities in order to play the game as successfully as possible.”We’ve found that PopCap games are helping students with improved spelling and vocabulary. The physical activity of FootGaming enhances the benefits of playing Bookworm, Bookworm Adventures, Bonnie’s Bookstore or Word Harmony.Why are “educational/edutainment games” so often, simply just NOT fun? The reason is very simple: when you set out to make an educational game, or attempt to add educational elements to an existing game, you immediately veer from the fun path. You change the focus of the game, and the audience to which it will appeal. PopCap is all about making their games as fun as they can be for as wide an audience as possible. The fact that 7-year olds and 97-year olds enjoy the Bookworm series equally is a reflection of this.Families that play together can learn together. BWA appeals to almost everyone over the age of say, 8. Adding FootPOWR to the game allows more brain and fitness benefits to be wrapped in very cool game play. Try it now!