A game that I recommend to all the kids out there and their parents as well is the game called Shape Switcher, the game that can be played on bgames.com and is developed by fupa.com.
The goal of the game is simple. You are a shape: a triangle, a circle, a ball, a square and you have different colors. From location to location, you will encounter obstacles that are barriers, which don’t let you pass unless you are a red square or a blue ball or anything else. You have to be careful because once you are transformed from a triangle into a square and you realise that to pass the next barrier you need a triangle, you cannot go back and transform again into the shape you were few seconds ago. The game is created for kids and I don’t think you will meet to many tricks like this, because the game is designed to offer you a fun way of spending your spare time, not a time when you will get annoyed by the controls and possible options in the game, like it happens in other games.
The game is a classic strategy game where you need to move your character on the path that is speciffied by the game. You need to move from point A, let’s say to a point B, where it is drawn a big shiny star. Until to reach the star, you need to pass through some barriers, but luckily this task is easy. The game can be played by children and adults alike. There is no violence in this game and it can be played directly into your browser. A nice game with many levels. The average time needed to complete a level is about one minute. If you like to drink a coffee in this time also, you can reach two minutes or so.
I like the music of the game and the fact that is all colored. The kids are gonna love this game, because it helps them to understand the shapes of the objects and see what are the most important colors in our world. Instead of showing them objects and explain them that this is a square or a triangle, you can show them this game, which will do more than that. With the help of the sensations created by the game (everybody loves the video games, especially the children), they will be able to remember better the shapes and to reproduce them at a later date.
And not only this, but the game develops strategy skills, which are important for a kid to develop while he or she is still young. This will help the brain to move to the next step, which for some is reading, for others playing the guitar and so on. When you see on the barrier a white ball, you understand that you need to be a white ball to pass through the barrier. How can you do this? By entering the shape which transforms you from what shape you are at this moment into a ball and by visiting the area where you can paint yourself into the white color. Or if you are already a ball, you simply need to visit the paint sector. This is true also for when you are already white. In this case, you only need to change your shape.
