GEOMETRY DASH

 Welcome back!

As I told you that we were going to work with different games related to geometry, I am going to keep my promise. In this case, it's time to talk about Geometry Dash, an arcade video game in which our character has to jump over blocks and avoid different obstacles in order to pass to the next level. 

And to begin with, you don't have to go very far to find the geometric relationship with the game, as the character is a square, which can vary its "face", always with geometric elements, but the face is still a square. 

If we continue analysing the photo above, we can see that the character is jumping over an obstacle in the shape of a triangle. And what was a triangle? Exactly! A geometric shape. 

The whole game is surrounded and made up entirely of different geometric shapes; from the main character, to the obstacles, to the ships used in some screens, and even the background of the levels. 

For example, in this screen of the second level, we can see geometrical elements in the aspects I have mentioned above. Firstly, we have the obstacles, all in the shape of a triangle on this occasion. On the other hand, we have the character, which is a square, inside which we can see two more squares and a rectangle forming its face. There is also the halo left by the character, formed by a multitude of small squares. Finally, we can talk about the background of the level, also composed of quadrilaterals. 

Although the game does not end here, it also gives the player the option to create his own screens and levels, giving people the option to develop their imagination and creativity, experimenting with geometric elements in a manipulative way, thus developing creativity, so in the end, we have a very complete game, whose purpose is not only playful, but allows people who play with it to experiment.

Do you know this game? I personally spent a long time playing it, especially when I was in secondary school, although at that time there was still no possibility of creating screens, so it was less entertaining. 

I hope you have been interested in this game and that you will be encouraged to create new screens. See you soon with more games!