Serious Game Classification

Rainbow Fish and the Amazing Lagoon EMME Interactive SA (France), Global Software Publishing Limited (U.S.A.), 2003  

Informations Analyses Discussion
 

Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Adventure - Educational - Licensed - Pre-school

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Licensed title
  • 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 / 3-7
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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Rainbow Fish and the Amazing Lagoon Rainbow Fish and the Amazing Lagoon is an interactive story based on characters created by the children's book author and illustrator, Marcus Pfister, for his picture book about the colorful fish, and on the television series stemming from the book.

In this game, Rainbow Fish's friend Molo is very sick; covered with spots and sleeping all the time. Rainbow Fish must talk to everyone who lives in the Amazing Lagoon, solve their problems, find a magic cauldron and assemble potion ingredients in order to cure him.

The interface is point and click and every action is performed by mouse. Two levels of difficulty are available, and the activities can be completed in any order. Among the mini-games:repair a nursery wall for Ruby by assembling jigsaw pieces
help the crabs to re-plug a hole in a cave by clicking on the bubbles that block them
follow Lucy's directions (up, down, right, left) as she guides Rainbow Fish through a dark cave
find the hidden yes/no fish and click on the correct one to answer simple questions
match up fish according to their stated preferences
free Mrs. Sorcerer Fish and friends from the flowers that imprison them, while avoiding the Lagoon bulliesThe suggested age group for this game is 3 - 7. [source:mobygames]

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

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