Remember the popular phrase “from 8 to 80” on the box of a board game, back in the days when people still played board games. What? You still play Scrabble on a board? Anyway, best advice to us when we were starting to create games for schools was to be careful to tailor games to a narrow age range. 7-9 year olds would be different to 9-11 and so on.
Interestingly with both our Invisible Buildings and Detect-o-saurus games, they seem to be of interest across a much greater age group than one would imaging. Yes, we could perhaps adapt the graphics to different ages, but the underlying games seem to appeal to all.
Furthermore, in talking with an archaeologist, there was a suggestion that with very little adaptation, Invisible Buildings would be suitable for undergraduates. Will it – watch this space and we will let you know.