Have you always been impervious to hard sciences? Did your bad grades in chemistry and physics give you nightmares? And you thought that you were done with it and that everything would ever be the same? At jeuxserieux.fr, we can guarantee that you couldn’t be more wrong: you are doing chemistry on a daily basis! To understand how, read our Chem-Next’s test.
Chemistry in your daily routine?
If the memories of your school days and your teacher wearing a lab coat, test tube in hand, is giving you headaches, Chem Next is going to be the right painkilling formula. The serious game aims at helping its players better understand the stakes of chemistry jobs in day to day life, more specifically in cities’ urban development (residential areas, borough infrastructures, factories, etc.). In Chem Next you’ll not embody Unabomber or a mad scientist; however as a dedicated council’s deputy you will have to develop your city while respecting an eco-friendly policy.
Created for the education and practical training centre for chemistry jobs (INTERFORA IFAIP), the game is quite surprising. With its meticulous design, its unique ambiance and its addictive aspect the game has a refreshing appeal to it.
How to understand what is at stake in chemistry jobs
Original in its conception, Chem Next can be played at alone – by downloading the app on a computer – or socially, and it’s on Facebook that the game reveals its full potential. On top of the social aspects that is usually provided by Facebook based games (visit friend’s cities, compare the scores, etc.) Chem Next is to be played on regular basis. Spend only ten minutes a day and you’ll be able to take a quiz (to collect action points) and four different missions (to spend the collected action points). Chem Next’s missions are mainly based on infrastructures’ optimisation in order to educate 18 to 25 y. o. youths on chemistry jobs’ assets.
If the game’s game play would appear dull to some, those who will be patient enough and try it three days in a row will find that the social aspect of the game is increased. That point being quite important as you collect through the game molecules that you can combine in order to create new eco-friendly solutions for your city. Thus you can compare your own findings with those of your friends.
Though you have as well a negative point: only the real fans of Kenny G’s music will find the saxophone songs bearable in the long term.
When the players have collected a sufficient amount of points, they are invited in INTERFORA IFAIP’s offices in Saint-Fons, in which webtag and flashcodes posted at key places refer to more information regarding the uses of chemistry in green technologies.
And if after all that you haven’t changed your view on chemistry, you are probably a hopeless case!
