The Big Plus project is all about developing adult literacy and numeracy skills. A hard to reach group includes young men with few formal qualifications from school. Screenmedia were commissioned to produce a learning resource that would be engaging and fun for young men needing to develop their literacy and numeracy skills.

Our response to the brief was to develop a series of games, using football themes and subjects. The games included keepy uppy, penalty shoot-out, top trumps, top of the leagues, match commentary, home & away and match report.

The games are fun and engaging and so proved to be highly effective in building reading, writing and number skills within this target group. The resource also helped to significantly improve the confidence of learners who lacked formal qualifications.

The design employs character animation and voiceover to improve accessibility and to guide, encourage and reward users.

As a multi-platform solution we first authored the resource in Adobe Flash for CD-Rom then repurposed the games for playing online.

The games are making a very positive impact on learners and Screenmedia are now extending the concept to new themes for modern apprenticeship skills.