Flo-Return of the Water Beetles

Point-n-Click, Children/Educational/Adventure

November 2005

Third Person

Editor's note: This is one of two faith-based games simultaneously reviewed by JA+ (the other being Buzby: Breakin' All the Rules). Both are based on inspirational author Max Lucado's Hermie & Friends videos and are geared toward ages 3-6. Both games feature caterpillars Hermie and Wormie, as well as Lucy Ladybug, Buzby Bee, and Schneider Snail. Each game goes on to boast unique characters of its own.

"As our story begins, we find Hermie and Wormie discussing a garden they want to plant. In flies a breathless Flo, who excitedly tells them she's received a message from Stringo of the Water Beetles...The group is coming to town to give a concert, and they want Flo to set everything up. She asks the two caterpillars for help.

"Concert preparations are represented by five of Flo's activities. These can be done in any order.

"In Antonio's Seed Zapper, party streamers are assembled by Antonio Ant and his troops using seeds Hermie blasts out of the air with a Super Seed Zapper...Lucy's Cookie Maker has our two caterpillars decorating cookies that Lucy Ladybug has made...With help from Webster Spider, Hermie constructs bridges made of lily pads and logs in order to gather flowers that are floating in Webster's Stream...In Buzby's Meadow, the two caterpillars stand ready to catch pairs of matching flowers gathered by Buzby Bee...Lastly, Hermie and Wormie try out Schneider Snail's Pea Pattern Sorter.

"A sixth activity in Flo takes place back at the garden. As it turns out, this is a Musical Garden. The seeds Hermie and Wormie collect as they work their way through the game's other activities are either song or instrument seeds. As they're planted, they grow into sheet music for eight children's and Christian songs, and eight musical instruments with which to play them.

"In Flo, the concepts of truthfulness, trust, forgiveness, and gratitude are explored. The game's activities are also conducive to the development of early critical thinking skills, with emphasis on pattern recognition, matching, sorting, sequencing and creative exploration, along with eye-hand coordination. On top of that, Flo is just plain fun!"

box front

Customer Support
Technical Support Form
Trailers (click on Hermie & Friends, Flo: Return of the Water Beetles, then Trailers)
Max Lucado's website

No walkthrough is needed

PC REQUIREMENTS:

Windows® XP, ME, 2000, 98
300 MHz Pentium® II
100 MB available hard drive space
64 MB RAM
8X CD-ROM drive
4 MB DirectX® 9.0b compatible video card
DirectSound® 9.0 compatible sound card
Speakers

MAC REQUIREMENTS:

G3, G4, or G5
MAC OS X v10.0 or later
100 MB available hard drive space
128 MB RAM
CD-ROM drive
4 MB video memory
Speakers

CD-ROM

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	Point-n-Click, Children/Educational/Adventure
	November 2005
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	*Third Person* Editor's note: This is one of two faith-based games simultaneously reviewed by JA+ (the other being Buzby: Breakin' All the Rules). Both are based on inspirational author Max Lucado's Hermie & Friends videos and are geared toward ages 3-6. Both games feature caterpillars Hermie and Wormie, as well as Lucy Ladybug, Buzby Bee, and Schneider Snail. Each game goes on to boast unique characters of its own. "As our story begins, we find Hermie and Wormie discussing a garden they want to plant. In flies a breathless Flo, who excitedly tells them she's received a message from Stringo of the Water Beetles...The group is coming to town to give a concert, and they want Flo to set everything up. She asks the two caterpillars for help. *"Concert preparations are represented by five of Flo's activities. These can be done in any order.* "In Antonio's Seed Zapper, party streamers are assembled by Antonio Ant and his troops using seeds Hermie blasts out of the air with a Super Seed Zapper...Lucy's Cookie Maker has our two caterpillars decorating cookies that Lucy Ladybug has made...With help from Webster Spider, Hermie constructs bridges made of lily pads and logs in order to gather flowers that are floating in Webster's Stream...In Buzby's Meadow, the two caterpillars stand ready to catch pairs of matching flowers gathered by Buzby Bee...Lastly, Hermie and Wormie try out Schneider Snail's Pea Pattern Sorter. "A sixth activity in Flo takes place back at the garden. As it turns out, this is a Musical Garden. The seeds Hermie and Wormie collect as they work their way through the game's other activities are either song or instrument seeds. As they're planted, they grow into sheet music for eight children's and Christian songs, and eight musical instruments with which to play them. "In Flo, the concepts of truthfulness, trust, forgiveness, and gratitude are explored. The game's activities are also conducive to the development of early critical thinking skills, with emphasis on pattern recognition, matching, sorting, sequencing and creative exploration, along with eye-hand coordination. On top of that, Flo is just plain fun!" -
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	Customer Support Technical Support Form *Trailers (click on Hermie & Friends, Flo: Return of the Water Beetles,* then Trailers) Max Lucado's website**
	No walkthrough is needed
	*PC REQUIREMENTS:* Windows® XP, ME, 2000, 98 300 MHz Pentium® II 100 MB available hard drive space 64 MB RAM 8X CD-ROM drive 4 MB DirectX® 9.0b compatible video card DirectSound® 9.0 compatible sound card Speakers	*MAC REQUIREMENTS:* G3, G4, or G5 MAC OS X v10.0 or later 100 MB available hard drive space 128 MB RAM CD-ROM drive 4 MB video memory Speakers
	CD-ROM