Serious Game Classification

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (Programme d'entrainement cérébral du Dr Kawashima) Nintendo (Japan), Nintendo (Japan), 2005  

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Exergame)

Keywords

Action - Brain - Exergame - Mental arithmetic - Mental training - Puzzle - Reading test - Serious game - Stroop test - Training

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Training

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Healthcare

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 8-11 / 12-16 / 17-25 / 25-35 / 35-60 / 60+
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick CREATE : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick WRITE : explanation of this brick
2 analysis

Comments

Analyses
  • "For this SG, the voice brick is missing. Does the create brick is ok to represent the idea to draw lines in order to link different points?"
  • "Each minigame features a different gameplay combination: the goals are always MATCH or/and AVOID, associated to a single mean at once among WRITE, SELECT and MOVE."
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! A collection of minigames suited for cerebral training. This serious game is design to motivate the players to perform a daily training, in order to improve their "brain age".

The featured minigames range from mental arithmetic to reading exercices and logic-based tests.

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Nintendo DS

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