How Hanoi Puzzles: Strong Match is Serving to Neurodivergent Youngsters 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 help establishment in Santo Andre, SP, Brazil. The studio launched each the Board Recreation and the ID@Xbox Play Anyplace variations of Hanoi Puzzles: Strong Match, as a help instrument 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 by which neurodivergent people usually face better 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 training, we don’t purpose for prime efficiency. We would like this to be the happiest second of a kid’s life, as a result of we imagine {that a} joyful youngster learns extra, develops extra and that’s our fundamental objective.”

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

“Initially, with minimal steering, the scholar rapidly understood the target of the sport and demonstrated speedy progress by way of the early phases. Nonetheless, upon reaching the intermediate phases, they encountered extra complicated challenges, which led to seen indicators of hysteria, together with stuttering. The sport was paused, and the scholar was instructed to take a deep breath, observe, and click on on every bit to discover the accessible paths earlier than making a choice. With this structured method, they regularly overcame their difficulties and continued progressing by way of the intermediate phases.

Moreover, when participating with the board recreation model in cooperative mode alongside two educators, they expressed nice enthusiasm, stating that they cherished the sport and needed to play extra regularly in the course of the classes. This response not solely highlighted their enjoyment of the exercise but in addition indicated important progress of their socialization abilities, consideration, focus, and sense of belonging. It was a really 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 academic institutes in Brazil”.

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

Use the foundations 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.