The Discovery Channel offers up a lot of entertaining and educational television programming. But if you didn’t know about it already, they also have a large presence via the official Discovery Channel website where you can learn volumes more about your favorite Discovery Channel shows and subjects. One of the most interesting segments of Discovery Channel’s website happens to be its interactive gaming community. With many fun and educational interactive games based on hit programs such as Deadliest Catch, this is a great resource to use to get the kids interested in entertaining and educational media. The games are a lot of fun if you just can’t get enough of your favorite Discovery Channel shows. To help get you started, here is a guide to the top five interactive games currently on the Discovery Channel website!
Deadliest Catch Game – This is undeniably one of the funnest interactive games featured on the Discovery Channel website. Based on the hit series of the same name, the Deadliest Catch Game manages to stay pretty faithful to its source material by using a simulation theme. You start out with a small budget that allows you to buy a boat and supplies. Then you must hire a crew to split your earnings with, consisting of either rookie greenhorns or experienced deckhands, each of whom possess various skill sets. You get to assign tasks to your crew (such as setting up crab pots), and decide what route to take on the arctic sea via a radar map, complete with weather forecasting. I had a lot of fun with this one! You can even create an account to return to your game later on. The Deadliest Catch Game is truly one of the best interactive games on Discoverychannel.com due to the interesting source material from the hit show, good in-depth simulation game design, and the snappy animations.
NASA Mission Control – Here is an interesting assortment of NASA rocket simulations and interactive games based on the Discovery Television series, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions. Here you can assemble your own rockets from various NASA time periods in order to create simulated launch and re-entry scenarios. There are also some very fun interactive games such as spacecraft docking simulators, reconnaissance photography, and my personal favorite, the Lunar Lander simulator where you must safely land a lunar module.
Life of a Crime Game – Part of the Investigation Discovery portion of the Discovery.com website is the Q&A; crime game, Life of Crime. Nearly all would be crime scene investigators will have fun with this interactive game, as it will ask a wide plethora of timed questions encompassing every aspect of a crime, from the scene to the courtroom. There is nice replay value to this interactive game as questions are refreshed every time you play, and there is also a high score table where you can rank your crime solving wisdom against others.
Global Protection Squad – This is a little gem of interactive gaming found on the Project Earth section on the Discovery.com website. In this strategy game, you and some multiplayer friends can attempt to reverse global warming by influencing the public and government to fund your crazy science experiments. The interactive game map requires you to thoroughly explore it in order to find people to help you with your mission to reverse global warming. All the while you must also manage your funds, science projects, and perceived reputation in order to be successful. You can even create custom player avatars and register an account so that you can return to your game.
Sharkrunners – Is part of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week promotion. In this interactive strategy game, you risk life and limb as you compete with other teams to tag sharks and observe them in the wild in order to collect data. You plot your strategy and observe your progress via an interactive map of the Earth’s oceans. You can even pick the kind of research team you want to join, which ranges from more conservative researchers to rogue type environmentalists.
