Hands from the shoulders. Cool games in which you can learn something useful
Game is the best teacher. True, playing most educational projects is more boring than leafing through a school textbook. However, there are still interactive entertainments in the world that can not only give new knowledge and skills, but also entertain. During the pandemic and abnormal frosts, master something useful-the most.
Learning to play the guitar
There are a lot of musical games, but things of applied nature, in the spirit of the musical editor Songs2See , supplemented by a simple game mode, or Synthesia for piano, I would not think. The same applies to numerous rhythm-goams, which are not so much about music as about the timely pressing of the keys. Yes, and nonsense like Rock Band or Guitar Hero There is nothing to do with it: to learn to play the guitar with them is like leaving driving in GTA, Unless the feeling of rhythm can be slightly tightened.
Rocksmith. In this mini-game, you need to pull the right strings in time to prevent cowboys from reaching the bar
It turns out that at Rocksmith, In fact, there are no analogues. After all, this is not some arcade fun, but a real simulator. The game is unique in that as a controller it uses not stylized plastic toys with buttons for tools, but a real guitar on which you need to play real songs. The presence of an instrument (an electric guitar, bass, and even acoustics are suitable – the only mandatory requirement in terms of iron. Theoretically, you can play even with the help of a microphone, even if this requires serious troubles with sounding sound. It is better to go bankrupt to the corporate cable: buying this is not a problem today.
In fact, Rocksmith is a virtual studio for playing a guitar in which you can do everything or almost everything. There are built-in lessons, and mini-games, and pedals designer, in which you can break completely any sound or take ready at least from The Beatles, even at Sepultura. Do you want – train under the metronome. Do you want-fill your glasses in mini-games. Do you want – Learn the songs in the mode similar to the notorious Guitar Hero. And if there are not enough compositions from the original game and almost one and a half thousand DLC, you can always find custom songs from users on PC: from Civil Defense to Openings to your favorite anime.
Of course, technically Rocksmith is very outdated (and, in principle, was always far from perfect). And although she lacks many elementary capabilities, such as the recording of the tracks played, she has no competitors. The problem is one: Rocksmith 2014 Edition – Remastered It has been going on for the sixth year, support has been stopped, and new DLCs can not wait. However, the developers are working on a certain non -anced project, so cross the fingers.
In Rocksmith, you can feel like a real rock star during a stadium concert
Learning blind print
Of course, printing ten fingers, without looking at the keyboard, is far from as cool as to cut dashing salts. However, for a journalist, copywriter, translator, and indeed any person who is forced to write a lot, this skill is extremely useful. And in order not to master some “solo on the keyboard” through force, it makes sense to turn to games, among which there are many really worthy.
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia is a truly hardcore thing
Let's say gloomy, crazy and funny at the same time The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia stylized for projects of the 16-bit era. Only here, unlike console classics, everything is tied to a set of text: even to get in the settings menu, you need to dial the word “settings”, and to close it – “close”. Moreover, it will not just be possible to print in your own pleasure, because the real Bullet Hell is going on on the screen when you need to write something at the same time and dodge the shells of the next boss. It turns out surprisingly fun – there is not enough Russian language.
Epistory – Typing Chronicles is extremely cheerful and sympathetic to the keyboard simulator
Or take a fabulous one Epistory – Typing Chronicles. This is a bright and colorful story of a girl who rides through the fantasy world on a huge fox, fights with enemies and puts in order the universe stylized under Origami. Outwardly something between The Legend of Zelda , Paper Mario And Tearaway. To perform some action (for example, destroy a mob) you need to quickly write the right word. And to do this, of course, is better blind – otherwise not to keep track of what is happening on the screen.
Contrary to most analogues, Russian layout is also available here. True, sometimes the clues on the screen show the wrong keys that you really need to press. Yes, and the font, in which for some reason the role of the letter “U” is played by “Y”, leaves much to be desired. However, this, it seems, is the best game-key red lion casino advanced simulator with the support of Yzuken. In addition, adaptive complexity is provided here: if you do not succeed, Epistory will offer a simpler template for recruitment. And if it seemed to you little, go to Nanotale From the same studio – she, even being in the early access, is able to entertain no worse.
The Typing of the Dead: Overkill looks gloomy, but it is quite possible to pass the evening with the benefit of it
Here's another interesting example: The Typing of the Dead: Overkill, which takes as a basis the legendary rail shooting range House of the Dead and turns it into … text tire. Also in the style of grandhouse films. To quickly knock out the brains of walking dead, it is necessary to fill the inscriptions in time, which occur on the screen. From chips is a cooperative multiplayer for two players and several thematic DLCs, one of which completely changes all words to obscene swearing. And partially – in Polish. The original, by the way, is included in the kit, so if you get tired of knocking on the buttons, you can just pick up the mouse.
Learning to program
Projects in which you can learn coding are predictably most: after all, programmers make games much more often than linguists or musicians. Therefore, I decided to dwell on just a few titles that seemed to me the most interesting and similar to games, and not to interactive BASIC textbooks.
TIS-100. Do not let your appearance deceive yourself: this game is much deeper than it seems
First of all, both programmers and just sympathetic should pay attention to the projects of the studio Zachtronics : very minimalistic, but deep and diverse puzzles. True, in order to enjoy them in full, you need to already imagine the basics of programming and be ready to delve into manuals, which often come with the game. Laconic TIS-100 is a multi -flow assembler simulator, Shenzhen I/O allows you to build electronic circuits and program them. IN Exapunks With the help of the same assembler, we program nanobots and hack everything: from game consoles to government agencies.
I want something more intuitive and understandable for non-programmer? IN Opus Magnum You can mess with alchemical transmutations before the loss of the pulse, and in Infinifactory – with an automatic factory that, at the command of alien hosts, creates everything in the world, from the chambers of solitary imprisonment to whale canned goods. By filling and appearance, all these games are very different, but equally exciting. Moreover, each has a plot, and sometimes very good! So the point of overcoming the high threshold of entry is definitely available.
7 Billion Humans. No one said that it would be very easy
Want something simpler? It doesn’t matter. Human Resource Machine And her continuation 7 Billion Humans look much more friendly than most competitors. A funny visual immediately sets up in a frivolous way, and the tasks are mostly simpler than in TIS-100. Nevertheless, it is possible to spend time with benefit here, and over the optimization of some algorithms you will have to break your head well. After all, one thing is just to solve a puzzle, and it’s quite another to do this for a minimum number of moves.
Hack ‘N’ Slash is still a puzzle rather than a role-playing game
For those who want to get out of the plane of puzzles, there are even almost real RPGs. For example, Untrusted, The Continuing Adventures of DR. Eval – pseudographic "Horned" in the style of the original Rogue , which you need to go using JavaScript. Or ideologically close, but already quite graphic Hack ‘N’ Slash, where you have to delve into the intricacies of Lua scripts, use bugs and break enemies – without this, do not pass it. Or While True: Learn (), The hero of which realized that he was understanding the coding worse than his cat, and now he should master machine learning to create a cat-human translator.
Else Heart.Break () is also good on its own, in isolation from the main gameplay idea
And take a stylish and damn atmospheric Else Heart.Break ()? Here, the Hacker simulator, RPG and Point-N-Click quest so successfully intertwined, that it is impossible to separate them. In the slightly psychedelic world of this extravagant game, you can hack (and thus improve) literally everything, from the refrigerator to the pot with flower. To turn water into an energy, a lupus – into a palace, and an ordinary door into a teleport, it is enough to possess a special device and minimal skills to work with the local Sprak programming language. As a result, the programmer turns into a real wizard-and, as usual in near-killer works, in a fighter with a system. Actually, even without Else Heart coding.Break () would remain a very worthy project – and with this mechanics it turns into a completely unique thing.
It will be not enough? Other options by the sea. Quite simple Codemonkey , intended primarily for children. Mighty MMO RTS Screeps, The frightening appearance of which is compensated by the rich possibilities. Pretty, simple and completely free Gridlight … the choice is huge. You just need to do it. Of course, even having passed all these games, you are unlikely to become a professional programmer, but you will definitely learn something new about machine logic, systemic thinking and generally compose an idea of the main aspects of the coding. And this, in general, is already not bad.
Learning languages
But with games for learning foreign languages, the situation is not so good. More precisely, the games are full, but these are mainly free crafts on Flash or HTML5: crosswords, variations scrabble, “gallows” … On the other hand, this is not so scary, because video games in foreign languages themselves perfectly pump the necessary skills in themselves. By using The Witcher 3 You can pull up Polish, in visual novels – Japanese, and, say, GTA can become a good simulator for studying modern American English. In general, unhurried “conversational” genres are best suited for this purpose: RPG and Point-N-Click Adventure, where you can safely read dialogs and descriptions with a convenient speed for yourself. Fallout: New Vegas, Persona 5, series Deponia – Choose what you like.
Disco Elysium is sometimes very demanding on the player's linguistic skills
But from "big" games it is best for learning a language Disco Elysium. There are three reasons for. Firstly, there is just a magnificent English, full of complex vocabulary, humor, idiom and other Zagogulin, who cannot be found in the textbooks. Secondly, the Russian version has recently been published, and the translation may not be perfect, but it is made at least well-especially for such a large, multifaceted and tied game on the texts. Thirdly, there is an instant switch between languages by pressing one button, so there should be no plugs: if something is not clear, you can instantly switch to Pushkin’s tongue and spy of translation. Of course, to learn a language from zero, Disco Elysium is completely unsuitable, but it will be quite good to add to your academic English pepper.
Higurashi when the Cry. To switch to Japanese, click "l"
The function of switching the language "on the fly" is also in some visual novels, like Karakara , Higurashi when the Cry or MUV-LUV. True, most often only Japanese and English are available for a choice. The translation into the great and mighty of such games is far from always. And if there is, then most often very amateur, and even made on the basis of the English version, which itself does not shine. So this is at your own peril and risk.
Learn everything and at once
Well, okay, tongues, guitars, coding and swirling – this, of course, is great. But what every gamer wants at heart? Make your own game, of course! To do this, you can master coding. Or contact free game engines like Unity or Gamemaker: Studio – It requires at least the skills of a programmer, but work on your own project is still far from entertainment. Another thing is the games that are created in order to make games like Super Mario Maker or Littlebigplanet. The top of such projects is undoubtedly Dreams.
In Dreams you can do everything ..
The last work of the studio Media Molecule – Direct, by and large, her heiress of her own Littlebigplanet. Only the possibilities here are much wider. It seems that there is not a single aspect of Gamdev, who could not be engaged Dreams. Sprits, 3D models, textures, materials, levels, physics, logic, texts, music are a real combine in which you can create a video game of any genre and immediately test it. Moreover, each of the possibilities is described in detail (and the most important are accompanied by video instructions and interactive tutorials), the interface is intuitive, and everything works very quickly even on the base PS4. Do not want to make games? Not scary: take care of digital sculpture, write symphony, design your own worlds or just play the creations of other users. In the built -in store every day more and more interesting.
… literally everything
Of course, you can not count on the top graphics here, and it is not always convenient to control the process from the gamepad. Exclusiveness for PlayStation automatically cuts off a lot of capabilities for modding and export-import of files of various formats. There will be quite a lot of time to master the basic functionality, and indeed Dreams works mainly according to the “Enrage yourself” scheme, but the one who wants to, will be cut off in full. A unique thing whose analogues are not, and most likely it will not be.
In general, there are not so few really useful interactive entertainments – and among them there really are full -fledged games, without any discounts on the training essence. You just need to decide what exactly I want to pump – and go ahead. Dare!
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