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Pallavicini has a personal connection with gaming. As a psychologist who studies the applications of virtual reality and video games for mental health and psychological wellbeing at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, she noticed the improvement on her own mental health and lower stress levels after she played Call of Duty (CoD). The first-person shooting game put players into a simulated war, and so is more commonly associated with violence and stress than as a way of improving mental health. Pallavicini, however, says playing became a form of therapy that was highly beneficial in her day-to-day life, and later inspired her career in research. With this in mind, she wondered if play could help her father, too. Pallavicini had good reason to believe it could. Adults who demonstrate more playful personality traits are more motivated, creative and spontaneous. There have even been links between people with more playful characteristics having lower blood pressure. While less playful people struggle in their leisure time to relax and often feel bored when their minds are not preoccupied, those that are more playfully inclined are aware of new opportunities and open to trying a wider variety of activities.
The message was clear – people were crying out for more games they could play in Welsh, and Welsh learners wanted a bilingual game to practice the language. That gave us the confidence to go ahead with it. We decided to make it bilingual with brand new questions – half about Wales, half about the world – so that everyone in Wales and beyond could enjoy it.” HYDERUS:? The makers say the game is for all the family to play CONFIDENT? which was created by couple Ceri Price from Llanelli and Natalie Podd from London sells in five languages and six editions across the world. After Federica Pallavicini's father was treated for brain cancer, she wanted to help him with his recovery from the surgery. "I began to look into ways of improving his cognitive health without it being a burden or reminder of his situation," she says. Inspiration came from an unusual source – video games. We caught up with first-time inventors Natalie Podd and Ceri Price to hear how their idea went from not quite to just right in under a year. PERFECT ENTERTAINMENT - A rare game loved by adults, kids and families alike. Even teens love it! Guarantees countless evenings of laugh-out-loud entertainment
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He gives the example of The Mindfulness Coloring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons which aims to make the embarrassing act of adult colouring socially acceptable when associated with the "alibi" of it being therapy for successful people. CONFIDENT? ADULT & FAMILY PARTY GAME - An award-winning trivia board game loved by all ages for 2-30 players. We’re unfortunate enough to be halfway through a 14 day isolation period at home, so having spent all day on their laptops doing their home learning, we’ve been trying to get the kids off their technology on an evening and doing other, less insular activities. Family board games have always been a brilliant way of getting us all to spend time together in a fun way that everyone looks forward to, and now the kids are getting a bit older, it’s been great to turn our family board game evenings into something a little more mentally challenging and little less manic and mad.
A fully bilingual board game with questions about Wales and the world, the makers hope it will be a huge hit with the Welsh public – be they Welsh speakers, learners, non-speakers or as a gift to visitors. Ceri runs the business day-to-day, and being a Welsh speaker from Llanelli, the idea of a Welsh version was always close to his heart: FAMILY FAVOURITE BOARD GAMES - One of the UK's most popular board games with brilliant questions and funny answers you'll be talking about for weeks Your enjoyment of play can depend on both your personality and your willingness to be open to new forms of conversation and experiences. Proyer suggests that if you're most playful at home with your partner or family, for example, try using similar conversational techniques with colleagues or more distant friends and observe the results. With the evidence so strongly pointing towards a wide array of social benefits, it can't hurt to look a little harder for those small moments that make a much bigger difference than you might think to both yourself and the people you interact with.With no prior experience in the industry, Ceri and Natalie set up Confident Games and developed, financed and launched CONFIDENT? independently. HYDERUS? CONFIDENT? creators Ceri and Natalie Pallavicini puts the mental health benefits of playing video games down to achieving a state of "flow". She says flow is the " the optimal experience when nothing else matters", and is also experienced by athletes and sports people when they are in the zone. Playing to find the flow state can provide an enjoyable challenge and distraction from mental health issues, she says, meaning the player can work on their wellbeing without feeling pressured to improve.
That sounds terrific! Love it. Two more questions: if you had just one piece of advice for new inventors, what would it be? There are quiz games, and then there are QUIZ GAMES. CONFIDENT? is making trivia fun again with its unique gameplay that gives everyone a chance. Families and friends across the nation have fallen in love with its quirky questions, dramatic reveals and cheeky answer swaps. From teenagers to grandparents, its multi-generational appeal makes it a must-have for parties, game nights and get-togethers. It only takes two minutes to learn, you can play as individuals or teams, and everyone plays every question, so no one gets bored. The game is great fun, and provided far more laughs than we ever thought it would! Game play takes longer if you have teams rather than individual players as there is a lot more discussion and negotiation (make that arguing and eye-rolling) than when you play as individuals. With the two adults, we found a round lasted about 10 minutes, playing with the kids took about twenty and I can well imagine playing with more teams, you could easily be playing for around half an hour. That being said, it’s so much fun that it flies, and we lost count of the number of times we said, ‘just one more round?’!HILARIOUS GUESSES - Flip your answer boards for the big reveal and laugh at crazy ranges. Smaller range = more points! We’ve received amazing support from the Welsh public since we launched CONFIDENT?, and I was constantly getting asked whether we’d make a Welsh version,” he said. On top of scoring your 1 or 3 points, you also have three ‘Confidence Boosts’ per team too (think Who Wants to be a Millionaire lifelines) to help you on your way to the 15 point winning line. These are COPY – you can just copy the answer of the person who you think is most likely to have the answer correct, SWAP – you get to be a bit of a puppet-master and swap two of your opponent’s cards over, or DOUBLE – for when you’re super confident about your answer so can score 6 points instead of the usual three for having the best answer with the smallest range.
We have all had a great time with this playing together, and I would normally say it’d be a brilliant game to pull out after Christmas dinner if you’ve had the whole family over. Obviously with the year being such a strange one, many of us won’t be doing that this year, but the great thing with this game is we think it would work fantastically well over Zoom or the like. If you’re really organised, you could even post the answer boards out, but even if you don’t do that, you could manage perfectly well with pen and paper, and it’d be a great way of families getting together from a distance this Christmas.
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If you’re like a lot of people, you’ll be saying you really don’t know while still trying to figure it out! But what if you’re allowed to answer with a range of dates? And what if the smallest range with the right answer wins? That’s the universally-popular idea behind the new trivia game Confident?…
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