Cosmobot—Hyper Jump helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

Maintaining your focus when playing this game is very important. If the player doesn't ignore internal and external distractions, he or she will either time their jumps to new planets poorly or fail to notice when they are too close to one of the mines. In either case, the launch will be over and the player will have to start again from the beginning. They will miss out on coins and fail to raise their furthest distance.

Self-Awareness

Understanding our own actions, thoughts and feelings.

This game requires the player to be aware of the cosmobot’s (or “their”) surroundings. They need to know what obstacles the robot could hit and which direction they should launch to get the most coins. It is also important for the player to be keeping track of their emotions. If they aren't paying attention to how they feel--being self-aware--they will become jumpy and jittery and find it difficult to get the timing of the game right. If they reach that point, they will mess up and fail to get coins that are needed for their robot to be upgraded.