Three mini-games for the V Pro AP World History app

The app

V Pro for APWH is a mobile app for students of AP World History, made by Greg Easley, an AP World History teacher. It is available by invitation only. Its mini-games turn the course's review work — civilizations, people, causes and effects — into short games.

What we built

Working from the client's artwork, sound and question content, we developed three mini-games for the app. Each trains a different AP World History skill, and each has hundreds of questions grouped by the course's historical periods.

• CivRoller — which civilization? A clue appears, such as "lack of natural barriers leads to less political stability", with the answers A to E — Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus, Shang China or Olmec. Students roll a marble into the slot of the civilization they think it describes.
• BioBlaster — who dat? A clue like "Founder of Taoism" or "Became known as The Buddha" appears alongside a list of historical figures — Confucius, Lao Tzu, Alexander the Great, Cyrus of Persia — and students aim a cannon at the right one.
• CauseDive — cause and effect. For an event such as the Neolithic Revolution, students dive in a parachute and hit the valid causes and effects. Hitting an invalid one brings up a short correction, so a mistake teaches something.

Built for revision on a phone

The games run in a pixel-art style in portrait, sized for a phone screen, with sound for every moment that matters — a marble dropping into a slot, a correct hit, a parachute opening.

From content to game

The question sets — hundreds of clues, causes and effects across the course's periods — came from the client's content. Each set was built into the game that suits it best, so the course's material could be practised in three different ways.

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