RIYADH: Saudi students Kayan Al-Rwaili and Jameela Al-Huwaydi have won Roblox’s nationwide Play to Learn competition with Glitch: Parallel Reactions, an educational game that transforms chemistry lessons into a fantasy adventure.
The competition was organized by Roblox in collaboration with Savvy Games Group and the Ministry of Education. The winning concept was selected from more than 155,000 submissions by over 700,000 students across the Kingdom, and will now be developed for the Roblox Learning Hub and made available to learners worldwide.
In Glitch: Parallel Reactions, players follow a student named Badr who is pulled through his classroom blackboard into a world where solving chemical equations and defeating chemistry-inspired monsters is the only way forward.
“My journey in this competition was really wonderful,” Al-Rwaili told Arab News. “It helped me discover that I have hidden talents, that I can create games and that I have really great ideas. It taught me to think outside the box. I try to come up with ideas that are unique and appealing, ideas that no one else has done before.”
She explained that the concept evolved as the team developed the story. They decided to build the game around chemistry, hoping to make a subject that many students find difficult feel more approachable.
