

Only eating Kale is as problematic disordered eating as eating too many sweets. Grabbing a Pizza on the street isn’t the same as sitting down to share a slice around the meal table. This leads to other questions about how, where and when we play. Instead, we can consider what specific games have to offer our children and our family. They are the “digital super-foods” as Jocelyn puts it.ĭigital Nutrition is a brilliant antidote to the guilt, muddled advice and finger-pointing of screen time focus advice. These are the games that supplement your digital diet with variety, fibre, vitamins and minerals. Unlike the other lists on the site, it’s an eclectic collection of games.

Essential to a healthy diet and easy to overlook if we just follow where video game advertising leads us. These are the vitamins of the gaming world. I’ve worked with her on this list of games that provide particularly underserved aspects of our digital play diet. Rather than digital detoxing and unplugging, Digital Nutrition is about intentional and intelligent use of devices and the conscious consumption of news, media and information." "Digital Nutrition is a guilt-free philosophy that guides you towards healthful technology habits and improving your digital literacy and wellbeing. Instead, she encourages us to think about the variety, context and patterns of digital consumption. Jocelyn Brewer coined the phrase Digital Nutrition to introduce a way of thinking about technology that went beyond screen time worries, drug analogies and detoxes. Educationally, this isn't only a novelty to inspire other learning but offers an embodied appreciation of gravity, air currents, g-force, pitching, yawing and how materials respond at high speed.

The games we have collected together in this list, enable you to experience flight in some way. There are other examples that use trajectory to get to hard platforms, like Ibb and Obb and other games like Slime Rancher where you can unlock a jetpack. Along with games where flying is front and centre, many other games offer nuanced flight as part of their experience, like Rocket League. These games can range from novel superpowers that let you swing, boost or bounce your way into the sky like Marvel's Spider-Man, to serious experiences that simulate the complexities of flying a jumbo jet in Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's not surprising then, that many video games are popular because they grant the player the ability to soar through the air. The dream of being able to fly seems to be a universal human desire.
