Thursday, 4 February 2010

User Experience: Competitor Analysis

I decided to have a look at existing flash games that are educational and aimed at young children. The first one I looked at was 'kidspsych' (http://www.kidspsych.org/index1.htm)

Above: This is the first screen on the flash game. You get a choice of age groups and also information for parents.

Above: When I clicked the age group 6 to 9, the following games were displayed.

Above: An example of a flash game on the site along with instructions on how to play.

Above: This is the 'about this game' section and it tells parents what the game is testing for.

I don't think the first two screens we saw were visually attractive so this might put the parent off letting their child play the games on that site because they might think that the games will not be good as the website is not very good. I thought the pages with the game and game information on were a bit better but overall I thought it was very poor.

The second one I looked at was 'funschool' (http://funschool.kaboose.com/index.html)

Above: This is the websites home page

Above: This screen is what is displayed when the user clicks on a game and it is showing the user how to play the selected game.

Above: This is a screenshot of one of the flash games on the website

I looked at this website and I really like it although it isn't exactly what I am going to be creating but the games on it have been made using Flash. Overall it looks fun and there is a choice of different games on there which are educational.

Other flash games I had a look at include:

http://www.fun4thebrain.com/index.html


I think that some of the games I have looked at are quite good but I have noticed that, because they are educational games, they are all about maths, english, science or exercising different parts of the brain and that is all the game is about, they do not have anything to collect or unlock which make games much more fun for the kids to play. I now know that what I am going to create is different from most of the existing children's Flash games.

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