Occupational Therapist frequently using pencil and paper tasks just like how businesses use whiteboards to plan out agendas for the following year, except we might use them to plan out the movements through an obstacle course using the gross motor or sensory equipment in our clinics. Creating the plans can either be done as you go or you can make use of other types of toys or equipment that allows you to ‘stop’ midstream and have a conversation about what is happening. Like with being able to use a rubber / eraser for drawing, using a computer game / gaming system for learning to physically negotiate obstacles in front of you allows you to safely go back and start again without any real world consequences.
One of the benefits of a 3D gaming system is that you can change your perspective and then switch it back again. And again. And again. And again.
Where do you start can be easy to see from some visual floor plan layouts, just like the one above.
Yet in others, like this one, knowing where to start requires significant knowledge of what the purpose of the game is in the first place. It might mean that you need to ask for some help or go back and read the instructions. If not you might get caught out.
Some maps require you to get your bearing. Others, if you’ve played before with friends, they might be able to provide you with additional personal details based on their own personal experience or of those others that they know themselves who have played older versions of similar types of games before. That added insight might make it very valuable in how you think you will approach this game or this particular challenge. The difficulty may come in though, as to whether they had the right information themselves or whether they only had the goal of getting to the star, rather than collecting all of the coins and doing all of the work and THEN getting to the star.
