During my one hour break time at work – I would huddle around the computer with a few friends to play this wonderful game of hide and seek.
It is a computer game where you have to locate certain items to beat the game.
My friends were really gung-ho about the game – why gung-ho? It’s because the game has a one-hour limitation and you have to purchase the game if you want to continue your game. The game though after the one-hour expiration allows you to play for another 5 minutes if you decide to continue if you decide not to buy it.
One of my colleagues managed to beat the game by restarting the game after every 5 minutes.
The game is good fun and it promotes learning without my colleagues actually being aware of the situation.
For the first time, I could see my colleagues using the dictionary to find the meaning of certain words to help them identify the objects in the game. They would ask me if there are more than one meaning connected to the word. For me, it was improving my Malay as I had to explain the meaning in Malay.
Kudos to the game developers for producing a top-notch detective game which arouses and maintains the interest of its user.
One thing’s for certain – vocabulary learning took place and continues (my colleagues asked me for the next 2 game instalments) which in a way promotes continuous language learning.
