Serious Game Classification

Backpacker 3 PAN Vision Studio AB (Sweden), PAN Vision (Sweden), 2003  

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Adventure - Board game - Educational - Geography - History - Puzzle-solving

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting

Market

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

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12-16 / 17-25 / 8-11
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 MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick
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Backpacker 3 The third game in the Backpacker series, where you travel around the world by train, plane or boat and work (in the form of quiz and puzzle solving mini-games) to gain money for more traveling. The game features 800 locations in 100 cities around the world, and it is possible to play the game with up to 8 other players on the same computer or online. You navigate the world through a world map, and the locations you visit are shown using combinations of computer rendered images, montages, photographs and comic book style art. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

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