GAME INSTRUCTIONS
What is the goal of the game?
The Rabbit & Carrot game challenges players to guide a rabbit across platforming stages to collect all carrots in each level and reach the finish line. To play, you must use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate, jump, and execute specialized movement techniques. The objective requires scaling walls using parkour mechanics by rapidly combining directional inputs (alternating Up+Right and Up+Left), stomping on enemies three times to clear them, riding floating bubbles through the air, bouncing off springs, hitting purple blocks three times to destroy them, and pressing floor buttons to drop automated barriers.Recommended age and educational level
This game is recommended for ages 7 to 8 and up, making it suitable for Elementary, Middle School, High School students, and adults. It serves as a great tool for independent student practice, as well as for teachers, parents, and occupational therapists targeting fine motor control, spatial reasoning, and impulse control. It requires no prior academic knowledge, focusing on motor dexterity and timing execution across multiple keys.How to play: single-player or multiplayer
The standard format is single-player mode, emphasizing personal skill building and spatial problem-solving through trial and error. However, it easily adapts to a collaborative classroom activity where two students work in pairs—one operating the controls while the other scans the terrain, tracks button locations, and maps out the safest jumping sequence.What do you learn from this game? Learning objectives and skills
This action platformer reinforces essential cognitive functions and visual-motor integration:- Visual-Motor Coordination and Dexterity: Mastering complex multi-key inputs (alternating directional controls to perform wall jumps).
- Spatial Planning and Problem Solving: Routing optimal paths while factoring in environmental mechanics like springs, destructible blocks, and switches.
- Intuitive Physics and Trajectory: Gauging bounce angles, gravity drops, and floating movement through air currents.
- Perseverance and Self-Regulation: Building emotional resilience and trial-and-error strategy adjustment after failed attempts.
Tips to get the most out of this game
Practice the timing of wall jumps on safe, flat surfaces before attempting to scale high drops over hazard pits. For an unplugged offline activity, have students draft their own platformer levels on graph paper, place interactive objects (springs, purple blocks, buttons, and bubbles), and write a step-by-step command algorithm detailing the exact move sequence needed to complete the map.Video