Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Dark tales: Edgar allan Poe's Black Cat

Edgar Alllan Poe, was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, also he was considered part of the American Romantic movement.
He is better known for his short stories of mistery and horror, one of them called the ''black cat'' a short story of a happy marriage who live  appily with a black cat, and then the principal character killed his wife and the black cat too.
the adaptation of the book Dark tales: edgar Allan Poe's Black cat, into a game, is shown from the perspective of a detective looking for clues about the disappearence of Sarah, who appears in several scenes as a ghost. The game has six chapters and in everyone yu have to find clues and with them and the items givwn, the mistery gets resolved.

A lot of people think that games do not teach anything but it is clear demonstrated that you can read a book  through  it.
I think it is a really interesting game, I really enjoyed all the journey through it, it feels like you are linving the story from the perspective of a detective who is investigating who killed the woman of the story.
I loved all the soundtracks that catches your attention preventing you from quiting the game, also there were a lot of scenes where you had to put your brain on work, and it was very tricky because when the game asked you to look for thing in the scene they were pretty hiden and you do not even imagine where the asked thing would be.
in conclusion this is an example of how teacher and students can use games to make more interesting a topic, a reading or even an exam, not just to make it interesting but to learn and teach.

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