‘Who wants to be a buccaneer’ - Do you have what it takes?
Buccaneers & Lobsters went live in July 2010, the brain child of an 11 year old boy computer whizz kid Peter Fitzgerald. The game has got into the World’s top 100,000 sites in January of this year and has a significant presence on Facebook.
Buccaneers and Lobsters is a pirate themed adventure game where players take to the high seas in search of fame and riches. The player starts off with some gold coins which they need to spend to buy a ship, cannons, and recruit a crew. From there the player sets sail and can destroy or capture enemy ships with the ultimate aim of captaining an entire armada.
There are other missions along the way such as “Who wants to be a Buccaneer?” a game where you can win 1,000,000 gold pieces for doing well in game Chris Tarrant would be very familiar with, and games within the sub context such as “the Generation Game,”. It must be popular and fun given 25,000 people a day are visiting the site and this is growing every day.
It was announced in December of last year that the game will be developing into an education vessel for key Stage Two, including homework and testing facilities while expanding into a full Virtual Learning Environment.
The question is not if the game will be a success, the amount of users visiting the site on a daily basis proves it is, but if the new focus purely on 7-11 year olds will work. As any web master will know it is very difficult to get the age demographic of a site down to a tea and what if Buccaneers & Lobsters doesn’t indeed exclusively appeal to children?
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