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Let's set the scene: you've finally bought Math Challenge AR, and it's been the best decision of your life... Well, one of the best, let's not exaggerate.
Seriously, Math Challenge AR is the only math game where you can die while solving problems such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or equations. That is, if you play with the enemy option activated. Otherwise, it's an augmented reality game where you set your own challenge in the training section, or complete the campaign, which is designed to become more complex and difficult with each new level.
So, who is Math Challenge AR intended for?
1.- Math Students and everybody who wants to enjoy the game
Obviously, anyone can buy the game and enjoy it. Whether you're ten years old or a hundred. The game will be a challenge for everyone who wants to practice Mathematics.
2.- Children.
Meta and other manufacturers of virtual and augmented reality glasses recommend that they be used from the age of ten. Personally, I think this is a good age, as a ten-year-old child is already mentally and physically developed enough to use virtual reality glasses. However, at the age of ten, I would recommend clear supervision by adults at all times. And short gaming sessions with breaks between sessions. Math Challenge AR is relatively intense, even in its version without enemies, because it wants to offer a challenge to the player.
And it is clear that a ten-year-old child is still developing. The difficulty and type of problems should be configured by an adult before the child plays. Sessions should be short, no more than half an hour before a break.
From the age of twelve, children can be allowed to play for longer periods of time and configure the game to their liking. From the age of sixteen onwards, we know what happens: teenagers will tell their parents or guardians what to do and say.
3.- Students with parental supervision.
I have been fortunate enough to hear the opinions of math teachers about the style of play proposed by Math Challenge AR. Some of the elements of the game were suggested by these teachers, such as the yellow and red sphere panels, where yellow is positive and red is negative, and the player has to choose the correct answer. Although it may seem simple, the effect of the spheres or dots causes the brain to work differently than it does when simply counting traditional mathematical operations.
For all these reasons, Math Challenge AR can be useful in schools and various training centers, including with children who require special attention. In fact, I have also received feedback from centers of this type.
In these cases, the teacher or tutor must always be in control of the system and decide the best way to help the children learn.
Math Challenge AR is, in any case, a complement to teaching, never a substitute, as is the case with all educational games.
4.- Adults in general.
Practicing math skills is always useful. And to do so, an entertaining game will always help develop those skills.
Why augmented reality?
Some may wonder why the game was made with augmented reality and not virtual reality, with a setting full of famous mathematicians such as Leibniz or Newton throwing bricks at you if you get a sum wrong.
I like that question (which no one has ever asked me before). The answer is very simple: a virtual environment poses a greater danger to gameplay, as you cannot see the real environment, and it increases the likelihood of dizziness and vertigo. Math Challenge AR has been designed in augmented reality to avoid these problems, which I myself suffer from, by the way, when I play standing up.
In the end, Math Challenge AR is an Augmented Reality game with Math inside, but where the player will have to sweat to win. And that's another way of seeing Mathematics!
Hope you enjoy the game. Regards!