Before the Dumb Ways characters grew up, they were already making mischief in all sorts of places – planes, trains, and here in the kitchen!
Boffo’s hungry, and you’re his chef! Make him an awesome cooked breakfast. Chop and grate ingredients, add sloppy items such as eggs and milk, stir the mix, cook it, add seasonings, and serve your meal to Boffo. Be ready for his reaction! Keep experimenting – how many different creations can you make for Boffo?
This app engages young children in a fun, imaginative play. Your child is sure to return time after time to create endless food mash-ups for their hungry new friend.
You’ll encounter a band of characters that are lacking common sense in Dumb Ways to Die. This often results in their untimely death in various scenarios, but it’s your mission to help them to avoid this. There’s Numskull the spaceman that has decided to remove his space helmet, Hapless that’s provoking a grizzly bear with a stick, Dimwit the amateur electrician that’s attempting to connect wires across the screen, Mishap that’s trying to keep a rattlesnake as a pet, and Doofus who is disturbing a wasp nest for no good reason. That’s a mere sampling of the characters that you’ll encounter!
The only drawback is that the game can be too gory for young children. The developers of Dumb Ways to Die took note of this and came out with Dumb Ways JR. Two apps are currently available on Apple and Android devices: Dumb Ways JR Loopy’s Train Set (Apple | Google Play) and Dumb Ways JR Boffo’s Breakfast (Apple | Google Play). There isn’t blood or dying unlike Dumb Ways to Die, yet these games are just as fun and addictive while teaching the importance of safety.
Four Key Elements Have Guided the Design of the Dumb Ways JR Apps:
Child-centered design provides opportunities for children to:
– Create or explore different outcomes on different uses of an app
– Roleplay
– “Own” their play, making them feel that they’re directing the gameplay
– Experience playful explorations and problem solving
– Multi-sensory and multi-models elements appeal to a range of senses that allows for audio, gesture, images, and animations.
– The apps provide an appropriate level of challenge so that children can develop a sense of mastery, create their own narratives and games by using the provided elements, and perform constructing and deconstructing tasks (e.g. combining ingredients to create a meal).
– They also aim to appeal to children’s sense of humor (both anticipated and unexpected) with engaging characters.
Introducing Boffo’s Breakfast
Meet Boffo! He’s later known as the “the free spirit” in Dumb Ways to Die 2, but you get to see the younger version of himself in Boffo’s Breakfast. Your child play as his personal chef by whipping him up a breakfast! This involves cutting, grating, adding ingredients like eggs and milk, stirring, cooking, and seasoning his food. Imagination is key, enabling young players to create endless creations for Boffo. Boffo will let you know if he approves or disapproves of the breakfast that you’ve whipped up for him! While the game encourages imaginative plays for young gamers, I love how it also teaches the importance of safety in the kitchen. For an example, Boffo gets a worried look on his face when you’re cooking on the stovetop and the heat is too high.
I don’t know what my favorite game is right now I don’t typically play a lot of games unless they are boardgames (I know I am dating myself), looks cute for the kids to play I’ll have to check it out.
That is such an adorable looking game. I have to say my favorite game will always be Pacman. I used to rock Pacman.
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This is really cute, my daughter would love this. My favorite game is a puzzle app, I could do puzzles all day long.
Ooh, this is such an interesting game! I love the informational aspect. I’m not much of a gamer, my current favorite game is Temple Run 🙂
I’m not really a big gaming person, but my 4-yr old nephew is. He informed me I was very good at Mario Party when I visiting him a couple of weeks ago. He was right, but it was still fun. He would probably like the jr version of this game.
What a fun little game! I pretty much stick to straight Candy Crush but I am open to new options!
I don’t have a favorite game. I get sucked in too easily so I don’t play them Remember candy crush. haha
It’s so cool to see how creative game developers are.
My daughter loves the game. Both games to be exact. Boffo’s Breakfast and Loopy’s Train Set. I love the safety aspect that they both teach.
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I am hooked on hidden object games, lol. I got sucked into the world of Mirrors of Albion. I’m proud of myself for taking the games off of my FB account though.
I am not sure I have a favorite game right now. It is so much fun to try out new apps this one looks fun to play.
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OMG Boffo is so cute! *heart eyes emoji* This game is unique–unlike anything I’ve seen before!
My kids are always on the lookout for new games and I hate not knowing about a game before I get it for them. They’d love this!
My kids love this. It blow my mind how simply made the game is, yet how much it engages them.
I don’t play games on my phone so I honestly don’t even have any on there. I should download this for my kids to play if we are out and about.
My older kiddos have mentioned the dumb ways to die game before. This boffos breakfast looks pretty cool.
That is the exact issue I had with this game. My little one wanted to play it. I can’t wait to check out the jr version.
This sounds like a fun app. It looks like something cute that my girls would love to play. I’ll have to check this out for my girls. I’m sure they’ll love it!
This is the season for travel and long airport waits! And like you I prefer games that sharpen critical thinking skills and good psychological thrillers.
I am still into Candy Crush. I will have to show this to my Daughter. She is always looking for new games to play.
I guess I don’t really play games anymore but this looks like an app my niece would love. Great post!
I typically enjoy playing puzzle games. I’m glad to hear that they made a more kid friendly version of Dumb Way to Die that doesn’t include all the blood and gore.
I’m so excited about this my seven year old has Dumb Ways To Die on his iPad. It caught me off guard that it was a little too “deathly”, lol. This would be a way better option for him.
I used to have a lot of games on my phone, but my iPad recently erased all of them. So I don’t really play none now. I bet my daughter would enjoy this one. I might get it for her.
This would be a good app for kids. I don’t play games but my kids does, they love minecraft mainly.
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Not into games right now, but I used to be addicted with farm games. 🙂 You’re like my hubby though, he loves puzzle games. And that game sounds like fun!
Dumb ways to die sounds hilarious. lol Kind of like the Sims game but with exceptionally stupid people. lol
This looks like an adorable game. My favorite game is and always has been solitaire on the phone. Lately though I’ve also been into boggle.
We don’t play a ton of games on the phone or tablet, but my favorite is Candy Crush. My son loves Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja.
Omg what a fun game!!!!! My favorite game will always be super Mario brothers!