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Sensors Alive – Education Game Review
Sensors Alive is a Education/Adventure/Family game from Franckh-Kosmos Verlags GmbH & Co. KG, first launched in 7th September 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 33+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Sensors Alive Stand Out
The Sensors Alive app is part of the Sensors Alive experimental kit. It is only in combination with the Sensor Pods and the Base Station from the experimental kit that all app functions can be used.
Bring Physics to Life!
Demystify abstract physics phenomena like light, sound, and heat as never before — with this highly innovative, gamified sensor physics lab. The core of this science kit is an app-based video game in which you use real-world sensor data that you collect from your environment to generate a diverse array of creatures. Create, collect, play with, and take care of your creatures in the app.
In a pretend bioengineering lab inside the game, you play the role of a scientist who uses readings taken from three physical sensor pods outside the game. The readings are then transferred into the game via the base station. The sensor data dictates the different attributes your bioengineered creatures will have.
For example, if you take a low temperature measurement, the creature generated will have long hair to keep warm. If the temperature is high, perhaps it will have scaly skin like a lizard. Or, a low light level captured by the light sensor might yield a creature with huge eyes to see better in the dark, while a high sound level reading might result in a creature with tiny ears.
Additional attributes are controlled directly by settings in the app. Combined together, all of these variables lead to a seemingly infinite number of creatures
you could create.
Continue to use the sensors to capture data that lets you care for your creatures, feed them, play with them, create habitats for them, and generate more creatures — all the while developing an intuitive sense of the different measurements you are taking with the sensors. You will gain experience in measuring light levels, volumes, and temperatures with the three sensor pods, and learn about the physics behind light, sound, and heat.
Learning physics comes alive as you see the tangible results of your sensor experiments.
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This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Sensors Alive is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th January 2020
Recent improvements include:
- Many bugfixes
- Upgrade to new version of Unity
- User Interface changes
Download & Availability
Sensors Alive is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Sensors Alive on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We got this for Christmas, and just got everything set up a bit ago. We've been playing for about 10 minutes. Very fun! Animals are adorable.
It is fun but it is IMPOSSIBLE to get fruit. They want seem to want us to audition for a Broadway musical in the spot light and roast our scensors over an open fire. It is CRAZY. But the animals are cute.
These sensors simply dont work. Quiet rooms are 80db, refrigerators are 72 degrees … You get the idea. We work with sensors for a living but Im regretting making this purchase for our kids. Very poor purchase.
Base station shut off when ever we put pod in. The pods never stopped blinking green.
We just got this out of the box and start to play but when our senseimals want certain fruits that need the light sensor we found out it would not work so Im going to return it and see if it works, if it does then we will update this review,if not then Idk Edit we got a new one and it works yay.
We love this app but when we tried to get our sister to download it it would not download if this was fixed we would give it 5 stars but because it is not fixed we can only say 4 stars sorry.
Amazing!! Has a great system with so much fun. Our and our fam had a great time with it. Only annoying part is how some of the required things to feed your monsters are crazy! It asked for -7 Celsius. Other thing, who uses Celsius, this is America.
The games pretty good… But it constantly asks for temps life 61 Celsius which we can only obtain by putting the temp sensor in the oven. Lower the temp requirements on the fruit maker and Ill like it more. Try 25 instead.
Our kids were so excited about this game but we cant get the Bluetooth to connect on any device. It tells us to enter a PIN, which we cant find with the instructions. Its says try 0000 or 1234 but neither works. Very disappointed considering the price.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.03
- Size: 324.77 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Franckh-Kosmos Verlags GmbH & Co. KG
Last updated: 13th January 2020 | Genre: Education, Adventure | Developer: Franckh-Kosmos Verlags GmbH & Co. KG