Spelling Hero Game

Parents need to know that the Spelling Hero Game App is suitable for children aged 8 to 14 and helps children practice spelling by providing key definitions and correct pronunciation in a fun and exciting spelling game.

The app is well designed and easy to navigate and once shown to your child they will be able to progress with the app unsupervised. The parent can sign the child in as a user, where scores are kept or as a guest user. When creating a user profile, it is noted that the options require an email and the age option seems rather restricted along with the Grade system. Giving the parent an option of age 13 or less does not really give a target indication of how old the child might be. We do like the Gender option as this tailors the super hero to a boy or girl.

The app has ten levels to complete with each level fighting a different enemy. The power bars at the top indicate when the enemy is defeated or where your super hero looses strength if you answer incorrectly. The graphics are fun and entertaining and have a real comic book feel to them. The game has a few on screen buttons such as turning the music off, a pause options, a listen again options, a hint button and a back option. The app needs to be played with sound and is ideal with headphones.

Once the word has been said a definition is included. The child must move the letters in the correct sequence to spell the word. We did find that the drag-and-drop or tap feature of the letters was a little unpredictable at times. If the word is correct then the super hero will fire at his enemy automatically. If the word is wrong and submitted, then the enemy will fire at you. Several wrong answers and you will be beaten. The words do get progressively harder although we did find that app sometimes had no reasoning for the spelling difficulty as some words were incredibly hard including 8 letters and some words very easy including only 4 letters.

Even though Spelling hero is great fun the app is very repetitive and we were waiting for a grand finale or a change of tact in the app that didn’t happen. Each correctly spelt word shows the same attack, regardless of how difficult the word was. We think that spelling harder words should display a better looking attack, rather than the same one used to spell an easy word from level one.

As a parent we would also like to see the option of adding our own list of words words that can be used in the battle. Spelling hero is a great game to help with your child’s spelling however we would like to see more options to help increase the user engagement.