Explain-a-game

By

Henry Berry, Cuba Litterick, Ryan McBride,

Joshua Warner

We are developing an app

to help parents and carers get their kids running

around and into the outside world using classic

games for young children. Our app allows

adults to keep their children up to date with

technology, while ensuring they develop the

social skills that will benefit them throughout

their life.

We feel that the children of today don’t spend enough time

running around and exercising, but instead spend their time on

electronic devices. Parents and guardians will remember the

games that they used to play as kids, such as; What’s the Time

Mr. Wolf; Stuck in the Mud; Hide and Seek; Duck, Duck, Goose

and other classics that the kids of today do not play regularly.

Explain-a-game will help parents that are really busy by giving

their kids something to do whilst the parents are working. It also

gets them outside, playing games, which will improve fitness,

develop social skills and gets them fresh air.

Nowadays, children are spending more

time on technology and less outside,

socialising with people their own age.

Our app aims to change this, motivating

younger kids to get outside more and play

real games, instead of just simulations.

Many children of today spend the majority of their time indoors

and consequently are not getting enough of the exercise they

require. Children that we have spoken to say that they spend a lot

of time watching the television, or playing on consoles and hand-

held devices. Of course there is nothing wrong with this, but even

they agree that they should go outside more.

Their parents all agreed that they would use an app if it helped

them to get outdoors more, and running around with other people.

This is one of the reasons that we believe that our app will be

popular and beneficial to many parents of young children.

How can we encourage younger children to

play outside and with each other more?

Our app is designed to let young kids play

outside more, which will consequently

make them fitter. This app will also teach

young children different games that their

parents most likely played when they were

young. These children could then tell their

children about these games and they will

be passed on for generations to come.

This app has at least a single competitive

website (archive.wired.com) but so far we

have not found a single app even similar

to ours on the Google Play Store, the App

Store or the Windows Store.

Our app is much simpler because we

have a simple search bar, easy-to-find

categorising, whereas the website is just

an endless list with small amounts of text

that you would have to spend ages

scrolling through.

We have created a website at

explainagame.blogspot.com where people can

comment on our posts about our app. We have

also talked to groups of young children, all of

whom said that they would like an app that tells

them what games they can play, and how to play

them.

We felt that we did not need a survey, as the

targeted audience were either busy parents, who

did not have much time to complete a survey, or

young children, who would not want to complete

a survey. We felt that it was easier to just ask

both questions rather than set them a short survey.

This will be the start-up page

for our app, taking users to

the descriptions of games

when they click on the game

name. They can also search

up games by name, or by

amount of players.

This is the description page

of our app, where the

children learn how to play

the game. It has an image of

the game or something

relating to the game

underneath the information,

and in the information are

facts such as how to play,

where to play, and more

information on how many

players.

For this app we have decided to stay simple and

it won’t require any high-tech technology. All it

will require is a database of some outdoor and

indoor games young kids will play. This app will

be simple and easy to use. We will need many

different pages for all the different games in the

app.

We feel that, for our app, we would not have any

advertising, but instead go for a paid app. We

also think that advertisements would not work

for an app that children may use, but a paid app

would be successful. We think this because it

can be reused again and again, and provides a

lot of information for the user. It also would be

an app that doesn’t require internet, or updates,

so it can be used all the time, anywhere.

We are going to advertise on parental

websites, such as Net Mums, and also

maybe send out information to primary

school parents. We also send out

information on our website at

explainagame.blogspot.com which people

can read for free.

App Design Mock-up

We have created a website

(explainagame.blogspot.com) where we

post information about this app. We also

have a logo which is focused on different

games being played by children.

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