KidPRO: Sweat Games

No controller. No tapping. Your body is the controller. Connect your device to the TV, stand it up, and step back. The front camera watches how you move, and the game moves with you. SETTING UP Connect to the TV, stand the device in landscape at roughly waist height facing the room, then step back two or three metres so the camera can see all of you. TWO WORLDS Galaxy Run sends you down a neon road through deep space, with asteroids drifting past and odd little creatures blocking the lanes. Cowboy Run drops you onto the main street of a dusty frontier town, with crates to clear and critters underfoot. MOVES YOU ACTUALLY MAKE Jump over things. Duck under them. Lean left or right to dodge. Run on the spot to build speed. Freeze in a matching pose to smash through a wall. Every cue appears as a picture rather than a word, so a young player who cannot read yet can play without anyone translating for them. TWO PLAYERS, ONE SCREEN Stand side by side. Each player gets their own corner of the display and their own score, racing the same course. Whoever finishes ahead gets the crown. RUNS THAT END Every race has a finish line, a score and a results screen. Nothing scrolls forever, so nobody has to negotiate five more minutes. IT ADAPTS The game notices how a player is doing. Obstacles arrive at a pace that suits them, cues lean towards the moves they are still figuring out, and spacing opens up when they have been working hard. PLAYS OFFLINE No sign-in, no account, no connection needed. WHAT YOU NEED A device with a front camera, a cable to your TV, a TV with a spare HDMI port, and a couple of metres of clear floor. It works on the device screen alone too, though the TV is where it comes alive.