Several consortium members of ProsocialLearn, a 36-month project funded by the European Union, are producing games based on the ProsocialLearn platform that highlight the prosocial elements in the developer toolkit.
ProsocialLearn games currently in development/testing include The Season’s Soup, The Secret Word, Pushy Paddles, Tower Together, – On the Trail of the Golden Bone, Lost in Space, Emotions with Friends and The Chase.
The Season’s Soup
Description: The Bunny and The Bullfinch were captured by Igor the Catcher, a minion to the Duchess of Castle who is preparing her famous Season´s Soup. Escape from the clutches of the Duchess, through the maze to the forest and freedom.
The Season’s Soup is a cooperative two-player game.
Platform: Browser (WebGL)
Languages: English, Greek, Spanish, Italian
Est. release date: TBA
Studio name: Aniway
Country: Finland
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For more information visit the developer’s website here.
The Secret Word
Description: Not available.
Platform: Browser (WebGL)
Languages: English, Swedish, Greek, Spanish
Est. release date: TBA
Studio name: Redikod
Country: Sweden
Video: TBA
For more information visit the developer’s website here.
Pushy Paddles
Description: Pushy Paddles is an exciting cooperative maths game for 5-11 year old players, combining over 400 maths problems in 40 lessons into a fun co-operative, three-player game.
Players practice maths lessons while exercising their cooperation and friendship skills by solving a problems as a group, paying attention to others, taking turns, helping each other, communicating with others, being an active listener and dealing with stress.
Platform: Online PC/MAC/Linux, Android, iOS
Languages: English, Spanish
Est. release date: TBA
Studio name: Playgen
Country: UK
Video: TBA
For more information visit the developer’s website here.
Tower Together
Description: Tower Together is an engaging cooperative building game where 2-8 players work together to build the tallest tower possible.
It provides opportunities to practice and learn from collaborative action, mutual goals and shared resources. Aimed at school year 2 and above, anyone from the age of 7-70 will enjoy playing with others in this fast paced and fun game.
Platform: Online PC/MAC/Linux, Android, iOS
Languages: English, Spanish
Est. release date: TBA
Studio name: Playgen
Country: UK
Video: TBA
For more information visit the developer’s website here.
Laika – On the Trail of the Golden Bone
Description: Laika – On the Trail of the Golden Bone is an educational game for children about a mystery case set in the Laika dog park.
Platform: Browser (WebGL)
Languages: English
Est. release date: TBA
Studio name: Mad About Pandas
Country: Germany
Video: TBA
For more information visit the developer’s website here.
Lost in Space
Description: Three robots are lost through the vastness of space – work together to find their way back home. Lost in Space is a vibrant puzzle game for developing children’s’ teamwork skills.
Platform: Browser (WebGL)
Languages: English
Est. release date: TBA
Studio name: Pixelram
Country: Denmark/Romania
Video: TBA
For more information visit the developer’s website here.
Emotions with Friends
Description: Emotions with Friends is an educational game to support children and teachers in classroom activities relating to the demonstration and recognition of emotions and social cues, important prosocial skills.
The game combines the fun of playing with virtual characters and discovering a range of different emotional and social expressions. It is intended to be used in a class room environment as an aid for discussions surrounding facial expressions and other social signals, in addition to enriching the emotion vocabulary of students.
Platform: Browser (WebGL)
Languages: English, Swedish
Est. release date: TBA
Studio name: ESAL, KTH
Country: Sweden
Video: TBA
For more information visit the developer’s website here.
The Chase
Description: With your friends, you have to escape the “Giggle Monster” and chase up the hill to escape in a hot air balloon. You need to bring balloons to fill up the hot air balloons and have to collaborate with your friends to help each other from being caught by the Giggle Monster who loves to eat balloons.
Platform: Browser (WebGL)
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, Greek
Est. release date: TBA
Studio name: IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton
Country: UK
Video: TBA
For more information visit the developer’s website here.
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The ProsocialLearn platform and games pilots are currently running in Greece, Italy and the UK. Contact us here to learn more about our wide range of learning games and educational material for teaching social and emotional skills to youngsters.
