Learning Quests
Play And Learn side quests
As players battle through the gameplay, side content to the story unlocks. These are called 'Learning Quests'.
They feel like a side quest in all your favourite video games. They enrich the experience by pushing engagement with the storylines and character arcs from the main quest. Learning Quests cause players to build real links and emotional connection with the wonderful world of Cyber Legends.
From an educational perspective, the learning quests are designed specifically around the topics and modules of the cyber safety curriculum.
What is a Learning Quest?
Let's take an example from the game. One of your friends from Station 66 has posted a picture of a pet alien animal on Instapic. It was liked by a stranger (something which happens every day on Instagram). Your friend starts talking in a private chat with the stranger (again, a common situation, almost universal for young people today).
It gets worse. Your friend is eventually asked for personal information and pictures of their home. Wisely they refuse, changing tact, the stranger begins bullying your friend.
In game, this is when they reach out to you and the actionable part of the learning quest begins.
You discover the culprit is BullyBot 5000, an inept cowboy bullybot, rated only 3 out of 5 stars in 'What Bully Magazine.
You adventure out of the colony to find the Bullybot 5000 and destroy its communication channels. You then return to your friend, teach them how to block people on social media, deal with emotions, help them to understand it wasn't their fault, and how to avoid it from happening again.
You have saved the day!
Cyber Legends contains dozens of Learning Quests like this, and more are constantly added to keep the curriculum fresh and up to date with the cyber issues children face.
In each Learning Quest, through character, theme and fun gameplay, children will engage fully with the meaning behind the cyber safety lessons, and gain not only knowledge, but understanding and wisdom, and they'll smile and laugh doing it.
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