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100,000 children play Gebouw 13
So far the Digibewust online game Gebouw13 has reached almost 100, 000 children. The game is for kids aged 8 to 14 years . It was launched by the famous Dutch actress Nicolette van Dam, who plays in ZOOP, a popular kids’ program. |
It’s a fairly big game with different levels. The mission is to help a billionaire, who lives in a building (Gebouw13) and keeps his money in a big safe. To make sure no one gets the full code of the safe, he has divided it into pieces and given all of his neighbours a piece.
However, the neighbours do not want to give it back to him. The children have to help the billionaire retrieve his code and therefore have to visit all the neighbours, who give their piece of the code to the players who have successfully completed a task which tests their internet skills.
One of the tasks is to use search engines to get the right answer to a question. The players have to make sure they use proper search-words and not automatically trust the first hit in the list of results. Other tasks are to deal with unwanted commercial messages and gambling. Of course not everything in the game has to be educational, so there are plenty of pots and vases to shoot too!
Marjolijn Durinck, Digibewust
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