Calavere: Day of the dead
Channel: ungamed
Date: 2013-10-14

A small introduction to a hidden objects game published by BigFishGames.
Made as an assignment, for the course: "Video games and learning" from University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The video consists of a two-hour play-through of the game narrowed down to 1 minute length.
The background music is taken from the game.
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Presentation:

The game I choose for this assignment is called: "Calavera: Day of the dead".

This game uses a very artistic and toonish environment with music that emphasises the mood.

It is an interesting story where you take the role of a man that has to save his love from the land of the dead.

In the game you advance by:
exploring scenes, solving puzzles, playing mini games and finding hidden objects.
That way you, the player, have lots of variety.

The player is guided by graphical illustrations and dialogues that explain or highlight what to do if you are new to these kinds of games.
That can however also be turned off if you are familiar with the game type.

Furthermore it provides the player with hints for everything, if he or she gets stuck.
After you use a hint, it has to recharge, so you can't abuse them too much.

You can also, after starting a puzzle, choose to skip it after some time.