Fish and Trip helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

The player needs to be paying attention to fish that will chase them, fish that can join their school, eggs, and immobile puffer fish. This means that in order to keep from missing things, they need to be ignoring internal and external distractions and stay focused on the screen. They also need to be able to switch their focus between all these different parts of the game. And they will be practicing short-term focus by keeping their focus on the small area visible on the screen, as well as extending that into long-term focus the longer they play the game.

Self-Awareness

Understanding our own actions, thoughts and feelings.

This game also provides a very simple way to practice self-awareness through self-assessment. The bigger the school of fish is, the better the player’s chances are. Putting effort into paying attention to school size (“self”-assessment) improves the player’s chances of avoiding and surviving the bigger fish and obstacles, as well as increasing the amount of eggs they can collect. If the player doesn’t constantly use this self-awareness skill, they will not be able to advance on the leaderboards or unlock new fish.