Gamebooks, Other Fun Innovation Help Children Learn

NEW DELHI: Books filled with games are among the various new innovations in content now available for children to pick up in their process of learning.

"There is a lot of synergy between a game and a book. When you combine the two you get a fun thing called the game book. Like games have rules these books have rules too," says author and game designer Anshumani Ruddra.

Among the various games that Rudra has created is a multiplayer game book titled 'The enemy of my enemy', where the beginning and the end of the book is determined by the choices made by the reader in the initial pages.

"In these books you have one beginning but different middles and multiple ends. Kids can read to each other and play and it can also be done with single player," says Ruddra.

In a typical multiplayer book readers are presented with various choices and each option chosen takes one to a different page. "Each page has a different story. There are dialogues and there is a different process of storytelling," says Ruddra.

The only difference says the author "in a book you have to point out each thing to a child but in a game book you've to let the character roam around according to the player. You have to create that exploratory freedom in game books."

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