Ocean Protector

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[b] TLDR: [/b] This is a great little educational game that even kids aged 10+ can pickup easily and learn from by themselves. The supplementary educator resources are really nice and quite useful time savers, too. [b] More detail on Game: [/b] The game guides students in a very straightforward way that continually builds from knowledge to eventually higher levels of learning. The guiding system works really well since I can let faster students do mutinied repeats with different character roles while other students can focus on their fist character choice. The animations and art style are quite relaxing, and I especially enjoy how each species is based off a real world species from the southeast US oceans. Overall the game is really optimized and runs very smoothly. The game also has a resume feature too, so students can close the browser and then open it again later to pick up their progress. Note, I mainly use the browser version, but it’s nice go have the Steam versions to download if internet is or working (the web and desktop versions all have the same game content). [b] More detail on Educator Resources: [/b] The website also has some quite useful PDFs for educators whi…

Ocean Protector is a pleasant, positive and educational game about what we can all do to protect our environment - especially animals and oceans. It's easy to understand and learn from, and I liked how Ocean Protector shows the different results for choosing certain jobs or actions and showing how they can help plants and animals. The water sound effects are also soothing and pleasant, and make you feel like you're near an ocean.

"Ocean Protector" is, while well intentioned as an educational game about the ocean environment, acidity, plankton and fish and so on, incredibly boring, and could have been done as a web page, featuring mostly static images and menus as you play around with different conditions to see what happens to the ocean, and click through a lot of boring text. As usual, this isn't really making education better, but it is making gaming worse. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away w…

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