For week 5, I moved onto part III of my plan: Flags! What is it?
This week, I played this game, where you’re shown a country flag and you have to click which country it belongs to on the world map. So not only do you need to know which country that flag belongs to, but you also need to be able to locate that country on the world map. You click the country you think it is. If you get it right, the country will light up green. If you get it wrong, you get a few more guesses before the game corrects you.
How it went:
I sort of fell off this week. I got really busy with my other classes and I didn’t play every day, like I wanted to. I think that if I had played every day, it would have been more helpful. The game itself was good, though. It was super easy to use, because it had a very similar format to the previous games I played!
How did it compare to the other games?
This was a good natural next step, because it combined all my knowledge from previous weeks (country names, locations). It was in a fun, simple style like the other games. Not difficult to use and get the hang of. This was more of a quiz-style game. Still fun, by the most fun one was the global game.
Likes
- It helped me learn flags and locations at the same time.
- When I got a country wrong, it showed me the right answer
- Simple design
Dislikes:
- Tiny flags. Too hard to see details. Good for quick recognition of symbols and colours, not good if you actually want to familiarize yourself with the detailsof the flags
- The game only tests you on 30 countries at a time and there doesnt seem to be a way to change that in settings
- There were “levels’ but they didn’t really mean anything. It was pretty much the same game, no matter what level you were paying.
I had a different idea, which was to use canva to make posters of all the countries in the world. I started that before this class, just for my own personal fun. That was a lot more educational because i had to take the tie to look up each individual country
Would I recommend it to others?
- As a fun game to play to play to test your knowledge or learn casually. I would not recommend it if you’re seriously trying to learn all of the flags of the world. Instead, I would recommend my canva method that I mentioned.
3/5stars
UPDATE: while writing this, I kept looking for the settings of the game. I scrolled down to the bottom of the website and saw that they actually DO have games where they just do the continents (like flags of Asia, Europe, etc) lol so yeah I missed that…oops.
- After finding that, that improves what I would rate tis game and whether or not I would recommend it to others. I would def recommend those games to other because I think it would provide a better learning experience. However if you are more serious about learning the FLAGS alone, I still recommend my canva method, because that way you can actually see the details on the flags and you are not limited to learning 30 countries at a time. Plus, you can hang those posters up on your wall and looks at the everyday without any efforts.
Questions for you:
- which flags do you mix up?
- If you had to re-design the Canadian flag, what would it look like?