How Hanoi Puzzles: Solid Match is Helping Neurodivergent Children in Brazil

On February 8, 2025, Luis Otavio, co-founder of the Brazilian indie sport writer Hanoi Studios and developer of Hanoi Puzzles: Solid Match, visited Centro de Apoio e Reforço Escolar (CARE), an inclusive help establishment in Santo Andre, SP, Brazil. The studio launched each the Board Sport and the ID@Xbox Play Anyplace variations of Hanoi Puzzles: Solid 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 in the style, Hanoi Puzzles: Solid Match helps develop consideration, focus, reminiscence, focus, and planning abilities, features in which neurodivergent people usually face better challenges.

Hanoi Puzzles: Solid Match is designed to supply a welcoming problem to gamers, the place the variety of strikes per stage is not enforced, permitting for experimentation and problem-solving at your individual 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 wish this to be the happiest second of a kid’s life, as a result of we imagine {that a} pleased youngster learns extra, develops extra and that’s our major 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 coed rapidly understood the target of the sport and demonstrated speedy progress by means of the early levels. Nevertheless, upon reaching the intermediate levels, they encountered extra complicated challenges, which led to seen indicators of hysteria, together with stuttering. The sport was paused, and the coed was instructed to take a deep breath, observe, and click on on every bit to discover the out there paths earlier than making a call. With this structured strategy, they step by step overcame their difficulties and continued progressing by means of the intermediate levels.

Moreover, when participating with the board sport model in cooperative mode alongside two educators, they expressed nice enthusiasm, stating that they beloved the sport and needed to play extra often through the classes. This response not solely highlighted their enjoyment of the exercise but in addition indicated vital progress in 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 academic institutes in Brazil”.

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Hanoi Puzzles: Solid Match

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A brand new sport idea impressed by the traditional Tower of Hanoi. Assemble towers stacking items of the identical colour on a hexagonal board with a mysterious and stress-free environment.

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

Unlock blocked hexagonal cells by constructing a tower of the identical colour,
to open new paths and advance in the decision of the Stage.