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Playful Learning

Team

Dennis Reep
Nick Bijl
Jill de Rooij
Anne de Bode
Alexander Sommers

Commissioner: Stichting Orion

Description

How can hybrid games & physical exercise help special needs students in the ages of 12-20 years old collaborate better and build more trust in themselves and others to become more independent? A project in collaboration with Orion and Lectorate Games & Play.

Weekly Gameplay Insights – Week 1

Game: ‘Habba’ (or: ’Hibby’)

The game ‘Habba’ was played in the short break of 15 minutes in primary school amongst the
boys. Only one tennisball was required to have a real fun time during this short break.

When someone threw the tennisball on someone else, the player that got hit was ‘it’. He now had to pick up the tennisball and hit someone else with it. (In a way it sort of looks like ‘Tag, You’re it)

The rules:

  • You weren’t  allowed to hit someone on the head. When this occurred the player who threw the ball was still ‘it’.
  • When the tennisball was ‘free’, the other players were allowed to (and used to) spit on the ball. That is why the person who was ‘it’ had to pick up the ball quickly to prevent the others from doing this. The ball was free when it bounced off somebody that got hit by the ball or when the person that threw the ball missed all the participants of the game.
  • The game ended when the bell rang.
  • The person who was ‘it’ after the bell rang was sleeping with ‘Habba’ that night. This was considered gross, as Habba was described amongst the boys as a disease with rare disorders such as: Writing backwards the next day or getting itchy at night. You couldn’t get rid of Habba the rest of the day when you had lost the game.
  • You weren’t allowed to cross the boundaries that were agreed up on.
  • You could try to hide the tennisball so that nobody could see it. Most of the time this tactic wasn’t very useful because every played knew who had the ball and communicated this with the rest of the group.
  • You could try to get your friends to say that someone else had the ball

What made the game fun:

  • Everybody was very fanatic and tried to get as far as possible from the person that had the tennisball.
  • Everybody communicated over who was ‘it’.
  • Nevertheless, you had to pay attention of who was it, because otherwise it was possible you were going to be deceived by the other players.
  • Nobody wanted to get hit by the tennisball (or in time: Spitball).
  • It was fun to see others get hit by the gross tennisball.
  • You had a certain amount of ear that you would get hit.
  • An unwritten rule was that you would not throw the tennisball on your friends, that’s why in this game it was beneficial when you had many friends.
  • Also you and your friends could help each other by communicating false information.By all costs you didn’t want to be it when the bell rang, as you would be nagged the rest of the day because you would ‘sleep with Habba’ and could get the ‘horrific’ disorders

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