It takes place over several weeks, each day divided into daytime and nighttime. This War of Mine is a stark, mature strategy game about surviving war as a civilian. One final note for teachers: This game features mature content, realistic depictions of physical violence, and completely appropriate use of profanity. This would provide consistency between play sessions, while also allowing teachers to incorporate reflective writing components to student learning. Another option would be to play in bursts over a long period, but ask students to keep daily journals that incorporate reflection on the game's themes and their developing strategies. As such, if used on its own, it may be best used as an optional out-of-school activity.
This means that to get the most out of the game, students need to have a good chunk of time set aside within about a week. The game is much better suited to bursts of extended play. Furthermore, it's difficult to remember day-to-day strategies and plans when playing the game sporadically, like say for only an hour once a week.
The main caveat would be that a single game can take around a dozen hours to complete, and this doesn't include several hours of initial playthroughs that end in failure. Social studies and humanities courses could easily use This War of Mine during a unit on the horrors of war.
0 kommentar(er)
