Serious Game Classification

Lake Adventures Interactive 4D (France), Interactive 4D (France), 2012 Download it Now !

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:

Educative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:

Education
Ecology

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 3-7 / 8-11

Gameplay

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

The serious game Lake Adventures aims at raising awareness among children and young teenagers of the protection of water resources.

Designed for an audience of children and young teenagers, it presents in a playful way the richness and fragility of lakes and rivers of the Alps. It also highlights the need to protect the flora and fauna of these remarkable places.

This video game can be downloaded for free on www.lake-adventures.com since June 2012.

It has been presented at events related to the protection of water resources by the European partners of this project and is used in schools.

The game is developed in various languages (French, English, Italian, Slovenian) to allow its use in several European countries, it is composed of the following elements :
. an environment in real time 3D (3D immersion) representing a mountain region, a large lake and several mountain rivers,
. 18 mini-games showcasing water-related educational issues (fight against groundwater pollution, introduction to organic farming, understanding of wastewater treatment methods, discovery of the food chain...),
. numerous living species that we modelized and animated in 3D in a realistic way :
.. mountain animals (fox, boar, chamois...)
.. lake species (Florida turtle, pond turtle, frog, beaver...)
.. birds (kingfisher, ash curlew, swan mussel, eurasian bittern, great crested grebe, grey heron, black kite...)
.. fishes and crustacean (pike, carp, lavaret, perch, artic char, white-clawed crayfish...).
. A well-known Alpine legendary animal, the dahu, who helps the player before and after each mini-game.

Lake Adventures is a video game including three aspects :
. Fun : developed and tested with young players in order to maximize impact.
. Education : validated by educational experts specialized in environmental awareness for young audience.
. Science : validated by hydrology experts and specialists of the wildlife, fauna and flora presented in the game.

Developed by the French studio INTERACTIVE 4D, under the supervision of CISALB (Comité Intersyndical d'Aménagement du Lac du Bourget), based in Chambéry (French Alp mountains), this project is part of the European Project SILMAS (Sustainable Instruments for Lakes Management in the Alpine Space).

This project gathers many research organizations specialized in the awareness and protection of Alpine lake environments in France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Slovenia.

Distribution : Internet - Free
Platform(s) : Macintosh - PC (Windows)

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