I know, you’re scratching your head, aren’t you? Wait — that could be a game. Anything can be a game, as far as Nintendo is concerned. That’s why they’re teaming up with three universities and the British library to create games based on the activities children engage in on the playground, such as clapping games, jump rope, hide and go seek and more.Let’s Clap?Wiiseek?
Telegraphreports that researchers will use recordings of playground songs and games that are stored in the archives at the British Library to create prototype games. This is part of a £600,000 project which is being funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Beyond Text programme. Children from the participating school will help to design the prototype games, as well as design an interactive website for the British Library.
Although Nintendo has been confirmed as offering advice on the project, but we won’t be playingWiimote Round the Rosyanytime soon — they have no commercial involvement. As an experimental project, I think it sounds interesting and educational, but if you told me that Nintendo was actually making one of these titles for commercial release, I think I would have been tempted to hurl my Wii out the window (and considering how many games I’m dying to play on it later this year, that would have been majorly uncool!).
