A Cool and Almost-Serious Game

Communication through visualization is an interest of mine, so I was very intrigues by the concept of the game, Metrico, by Digital Dreams (for PS Vita, not my preferred platform.

A puzzle game, players have to navigate a world of infographic-inspired shapes, which change in response to their movements.  Each level is a different approach to infographics and the game encourages experimentation.

This is an interesting implementation of a potentially powerful concept, but Digital Games could have made it more powerful by using the infographics as something besides props.  What if the puzzles required actually interpreting or manipulation the bar and pie charts? With one more step Digital Dreams might have had a powerful educational tool.

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