6/13/2023 0 Comments Bombsquad pc id![]() With its digital countdowns, there's always plenty of time to solve a puzzle, but limiting you to a minute or two ensures there's a degree of pressure. That leads to a rather big bang, and a message informing you of your demise. Except without accidentally powering up "Detonate". You're disabling bombs, and that involves studying the circuit board, looking what's powering what, and working out a way to send power from the source to the LEDS marked "Disarm". What better application than pretending if you make a mistake you'll die. The theory of AND, OR and XOR gates are simple enough, but if you want to truly learn something, have it embed in your cranium, you need to apply it. I think the main reason all these basics went over my head at school was that so much was taught as floating theory, pencil-drawn circuit diagrams and faith. But what's so crucial is that it's instantly applied. The game is, in effect, one long tutorial, each new level adding in a new component (best pun I've ever used) like wiring, capacitors, XOR gates, and so on. As I play through its relatively simple challenges, I just keep thinking, "Good grief, if only I could have had this in 1994 instead of a tired physics teacher and some clapped out electronics boards."Īpproach it as an educational tool, rather than the latest in puzzle gaming innovation, and it does its job splendidly. Bomb Squad Academy is very unashamedly about teaching the basics of electronics, and the crucial thing is, it's managed to make that process immediately applied, and decent fun. It's not a platform game where you weirdly have to keep running through OR gates. The key difference here, from my mini-rant above, is that this isn't pretending to be something it's not. ![]() Ta.Īnyway, so there's a nice new puzzle game out called Bomb Squad Academy, a game about defusing bombs against the clock, and - WAIT A SECOND! This game's teaching me electronics! Why I oughtta. ![]() I'm 40 this year, my brain has pretty much established over multiple attempts that it just isn't willing to let in computer programming, along with French, the difference between "affect" and "effect", and the HTML for embedding an email address. But amongst their number is the cavalcade of recent games that feel the need to try to trick me into learning computer programming. If there's one thing I'm sick of, it means I've had some sort of head injury and forgotten the many, many, copious things I'm also sick of. ![]()
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