How Hanoi Puzzles: Strong Match is Serving to Neurodivergent Kids in Brazil

On February 8, 2025, Luis Otavio, co-founder of the Brazilian indie recreation writer Hanoi Studios and developer of Hanoi Puzzles: Strong Match, visited Centro de Apoio e Reforço Escolar (CARE), an inclusive assist establishment in Santo Andre, SP, Brazil. The studio launched each the Board Sport and the ID@Xbox Play Wherever variations of Hanoi Puzzles: Strong Match, as a assist device for the event of neurodivergent kids.

Fernanda Mombelli, neuropsychopedagogue and proprietor of the establishment, emphasised the significance of early identification of a kid’s particular wants. She additionally highlighted the important thing abilities and academic stimuli that inclusive video games present for neurodivergent college students.

As a brand new launch within the style, Hanoi Puzzles: Strong Match helps develop consideration, focus, reminiscence, focus, and planning abilities, capabilities wherein neurodivergent people usually face higher challenges.

Hanoi Puzzles: Strong Match is designed to supply a welcoming problem to gamers, the place the variety of strikes per stage isn’t enforced, permitting for experimentation and problem-solving at your personal tempo. Take a look at what pedagogue and bodily educator Alan Nobre needed to say about this initiative:

“In early childhood schooling, we don’t goal for top efficiency. We would like this to be the happiest second of a kid’s life, as a result of we consider {that a} completely satisfied youngster learns extra, develops extra and that’s our major aim.”

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A pupil with ADHD, nervousness dysfunction, stuttering, and socialization difficulties performed the sport, and Fernanda Mombelli documented and noticed their engagement and studying course of:

“Initially, with minimal steerage, the scholar shortly understood the target of the sport and demonstrated fast progress by means of the early levels. Nonetheless, upon reaching the intermediate levels, they encountered extra advanced challenges, which led to seen indicators of tension, together with stuttering. The sport was paused, and the scholar was instructed to take a deep breath, observe, and click on on each bit to discover the accessible paths earlier than making a call. With this structured strategy, they regularly overcame their difficulties and continued progressing by means of the intermediate levels.

Moreover, when participating with the board recreation model in cooperative mode alongside two educators, they expressed nice enthusiasm, stating that they beloved the sport and wished to play extra often through the classes. This response not solely highlighted their enjoyment of the exercise but additionally indicated vital progress of their socialization abilities, consideration, focus, and sense of belonging. It was a very rewarding second for all of us.”

What does the way forward for inclusive video games appear to be for Luis?

“I need to develop extra video games with inclusion in thoughts and make this initiative attain a wider vary of instructional institutes in Brazil”.

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Hanoi Puzzles: Strong Match

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A brand new recreation idea impressed by the traditional Tower of Hanoi. Assemble towers stacking items of the identical coloration on a hexagonal board with a mysterious and enjoyable environment.

Use the principles of the well-known Tower of Hanoi puzzle,
the place a bigger piece can’t be on high of a smaller one.

Unlock blocked hexagonal cells by constructing a tower of the identical coloration,
to open new paths and advance within the decision of the Degree.