There was a time when e-learning game development was an expensive and less preferred option. But due to changing corporate and educational scenarios, e-learning games are getting in the trend. Increasing demand for consistent corporate training, the same Elearning game development services which once was considered an expensive business, is now considered as a lucrative and efficient business.
Therefore, there are plenty of new e-learning games that hold the potential to educate people over the variety of subjects and industrial skills, are coming to the market. Amongst all that has flooded the web game market, only a few e-learning games make a mark in the market by capturing a wide range of audiences.
The popular e-learning games that are available in the market are basically the templates; they can be customized and utilized according to the corporation’s leaning or training requirements. The list of those e-learning games that have sustained the market competition and have stood their foot as the most popular e-learning games at the beginning of 2020 is as follows:
1. Googly Cricket:
As cricket is a very popular game all over the globe, there are templates based on the game named Googly Cricket that allows the organizations to provide industrial pieces of training. It offers engaging and interactive assessment games. In this game, as you open the game screen, the audio sound you get is of a packed stadium. You have to play the quizzes, and for correct answers, you get scores in the theme of the cricket scoreboard. Players are instantly informed about the correct or incorrect answer. The game option offers the timer options, scores in runs as 1, 4 and 6, power-play options and the assessment award in the form of a trophy. This e-learning game appears to be trending in the year 2020.
2. Nine Pins:
This is a popular e-learning game template that appears like a bowling game. In this game, the learner has to answer all the quiz questions to get the full score in the bowling view. If you miss an answer you will miss your target too. This is a live game played in the organizations and in order to get on the leader board, you have to get on the top of the bowling score in Nine Pins.
The best feature of this game is that it gives feedback to the learner. This feedback feature tells the learner in which field he is demanded to improve his skills.
3. Spot the Jargon:
This is a puzzle or crossword inspired e-learning game template. Every stage this game involves difficult technical words in the puzzle. The game is quite popular in the political, insurance and healthcare, and business industries. This game helps in improving the communication skills the choice of technical words in the professional atmosphere.
4. Wheel of Fortune:
This is a wheel spin e-learning game in which the learner has to spin the wheel of fortune and by his luck; he gets a set of questions or an assessment task. The learner has to perform the assessment task that is displayed on the screen and for each assessment passed, he gets the points that are added to the leader board.
5. Zap the Alien:
This is one of the most engaging e-learning game templates because it involves hitting the odd concept. In this game, the learner gets the set of options and a scenario. He has to hit the option that does not fit in the concept scenario. These games are played in the organizations to teach organizational ethics, security standard basics and business motives, etc. This game has an interesting layout where the learner gets a gun or a knife or a trap to zap the alien. Every spotted odd concept gives an ace point to the player.
6. Secret Mission:
The secret mission is a really engaging game template that puts the learner on a secret mission. This is basically developed for the socializing group of employees. In this game, the employees are required to find the answers to their secret mission by interacting with other employees by chatting on the same game screen. The employee cannot disclose the mission and also if he succeeds in the mission, he gets to destroy other’s mission points with a fighter jet. If the employee loses, the other player employees can destroy his points.
7. Gustav’s Trip:
Gustav’s game has a storytelling outlook that keeps the learner engaged. In this game a guy called Gustav is about to go on a hiking trip but to begin with, he needs 4 things that only can be sought by a learner. The learner has to answer quizzes to earn the 4 things that he needs.
These are some of the popular e-learning game templates that are being used for the development of e-learning games. The advancement in the e-learning games in the year 2020 is only forecasted to be the adaption of the same game concepts.
