Splash: Underwater Sanctuary will use Carmen Sandiego tactics to teach you about fish

Kids learn better if the information they are absorbing could later incriminate someone.

At least, that was one of the chief takeaways from Broderbund’s series of educational Carmen Sandiego adventure games. Players underwent missions to find the next clue to the identity or location of one of Carmen’s henchmen embedded in the historical facts about a region or time period included in the in-game encyclopedia index. By spelunking through an introductory guide to the history of Chile, young gamers memorized test-worthy data while fulfilling their espionage fantasies. Runaway and DeNA’s mobile simulation game Splash: Underwater Sanctuary wants to engage players in a similar way but with fish.