LEAD MAGAZINE | 2019
When you want to retrieve the final
engine part, a giant, jelly-like substance
rises from the water its monstrous dark
shadow enveloping you. You have no
choice but to engage it in battle, else
you may never meet your parents again.
You send out your Nitrogen creatures
but they seem ineffective. They put up a
good fight but the monster is too strong.
You find yourself defeated. But…
A message pops up on screen saying:
Good Going. Try Again. You tap ‘Try
Again’ and plunge into another battle
with the jelly monster.
You relish the chance
to give defeating it
another go.
Games reward trial and error.
In a game, if you fail a level or suffer a
defeat in battle, you gain experience
points. When you reflect on it in a real life
situation, this is true. When you practice
basketball throws, you are still gaining
something from every missed basket;
experience on how not to throw and
learning better bodily control. People
who take failures as lessons to get better
are more likely to succeed. Imagine the
world we could create if more people
learnt to embrace their mistakes as
lessons instead of failures.
“I have missed more
than 9,000 shots in
my career. I have lost
almost 300 games. On
26 occasions I have been
entrusted to take the
game winning shot, and
I missed. I have failed
over and over and over
again in my life. And
that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan
The End Game
We have been very blessed to have
received recognition from three major
industries:
Game,
Education
and
Business. ChemCaper received the 1st
SEA International Mobile Game Award
16
for Best Meaningful Play and went
on to compete at a global level. We
received a 90% rating by the Finnish
Education Standard, Kokoa Agency and
a recognition as the Best Chemistry
Resource from Tutorful, UK. We are very
excited to announce five smaller games
in the pipeline. BonDing is our new card
game and Immuno is a biology game that
teaches kids about the immune system.
(Warning: they are fun and addicting)
Imagine it’s the night before a terrifying
examination. Unfazed, you confidently
reach into your school bag pack and pull
out THE tool that has always helped you
revise and ace your exams…
Your video game.
I cannot think of a more fun and exciting
direction an Education Evolution can go.
Can you?
Erica Tham is the Lead
Developer of ChemCaper,
the world’s first chemistry
role playing game. The game
was created with the aim of
being able to help children
learn chemistry on a fun
way on the devices that
they are so comfortable
with. ChemCaper has gained
recognition and several
awards, including the
APICTA Award 2016 for Best
E-Learning for both Malaysia
and the Asian region, as well
as the IMGA Award 2016
for Best Meaningful Play
(Asian Level). As featured
in Bloomberg Business,
Yahoo! Finance, Reuters,
astroAWANI and many more.
www.chemcaper.com