Ubisoft Montreal has released Rabbids Coding, a free educational game designed to help kids learn how to code. Programming has an age problem, with fewer youngsters interested in taming their hardware through code. With the release of Rabbids Coding, Ubisoft Montreal joins other high-profile gaming studios promoting STEM education.
The world is digital, and soon everything will be connected. Consumers are surrounded by hardware, software, and apps that control and connect everything. Of course, programming all of these tools requires advanced computer science knowledge. That’s the reason many companies have tried to introduce kids to technology through educational software, and also why the ultra-popular Raspberry Pi was created in the first place. Despite the need for STEM-focused learning tools, many of these educational games have failed, with even the mighty Raspberry Pi having greater success as a home media system solution than in education. Ubisoft might have found the ingredient that was missing from all those attempts: humor and insane Rabbids.
The core concepts in Rabbids Coding aren’t new, but their particular brand of craziness elevates Ubisoft Montreal’s game compared to similar attempts. In the educational game, the Rabbids have invaded the International Space Station. Since they’re usually synonymous with chaos and destruction, players' have no choice but to launch them into space before they destroy everything. Rabbids have appeared in a variety of media in recent years, including a stop-motion adventure. Now, the characters are entering the world of education. A new trailer gives Rabbids fans an introduction to the new game.
In action, the game works like a puzzler, where players have to connect action blocks correctly to solve problems. It starts with simple movements where, for example, players have to create a series of steps that a Rabbid will take to reach a lever, and an action block to interact with it. As you progress through the game’s 32 levels, the problems get harder, their solutions more complex, and the programming concepts more complicated.
What starts with simple action steps (sequential programming), soon expands to contain loops (parts of the program that repeat), and conditions (where logic checks are applied before an action - “if X happened, then do Y”). The gamer might be moving blocks around to help the Rabbids solve problems, but the logic behind every move is precisely the same a programmer would use to build an actual program. As it gets progressively harder, especially for younger players, the path to success will be filled with lots of trial and error, just like actual programming, but with more time travel washing machines.
Rabbids Coding is freely available via Ubisoft’s Uplay and, at least for the time being, is a Windows PC exclusive.
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