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Payment for individual games should be at your comfort level. (Suggest: $3 to $10)

AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Sphinx Fast!  A fun, fast 26 question journey into ancient Egypt.  Game content provided by the students of Project Challenge (2010). download SPHINX FAST for Windows  download SPHINX FAST for Mac

What Would YOU Do? 14 critical decision-making scenarios from the lives of 4th and 5th grades that place you in the shoes of a participant in a bullying or socially disturbing situation.  Play along with these engaging and bright students to see if you are a PERPETRATOR,  a BYSTANDER or an UPSTANDER. Produced with the gifted students and enlightened teacher of Project Challenge of Cinnaminson. DOWNLOAD WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR WINDOWS & MAC

Save Our Species. This vanishing species awareness game features more than 3 dozen "spokes species" persuading you to see life from their point of view.  You can't save them all.  With limited time and limited moves you must decide who to save.  Great job presenting the cases by 5th graders in 2008 and 2009. Produced with the gifted students and enlightened teacher of Project Challenge of Cinnaminson. DOWNLOAD SAVE OUR SPECIES FOR WINDOWS & MAC

THAT'S MY GOVERNOR (features student submitted quotes from the heated NJ 2009 Gubernatorial race, plus student opinions). FOR MAC... FOR WINDOWS... CROSS PLATFORM WITH FLASH PLAYER 10 THE MAYOR OF FAIRE (features students taking up the cause for endangered species.  Includes video.  Approximately 40MB). CROSS PLATFORM (.EXE for Windows and Mac APP)

The games below were programmed in Director and may not be totally compatible with some versions of windows.  Please let us know how they worked for you.

MY CANDIDATE '08* (Uses quotes from John McCain and Barack Obama to help you find out who says what you would say most!)
FOR MAC .................. FOR WINDOWS

IS THAT A FACT*?( 4th Grade gifted students provide facts and "fictions" from the Native American curriculum)
FOR MAC .................. FOR WINDOWS

GIFTED FEEDBACK FEUD* (This game was developed around real survey answers by Gifted Students)
FOR MAC .................. FOR WINDOWS YOU CANDIDATE (Using quotes from all 17 of the 2008 Republican and Democrat Contenders)
FOR MAC .................. FOR WINDOWS

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? - BOSTON STYLE *... Sports Trivia by young aspiring sportscasters. (This download is 104 MB -- it may take a while. It may not work with all Windows configurations. Tried and successfully tested with MacIntel and other late model Macs.)

*When you unzip the download package, be sure to keep all the files and folders exactly where they are. Do not rename or move any files. This is not quite commercially ready software. It's "hocware" programmed on Mac Intel computers using Adobe Director. We have reports of problems playing the games using various Windows configurations. We're working on fixes. Mac and MacIntel configurations have reported no problems with the online or downloaded versions. (To play online, be sure to have the Shockwave 11 Player installed properly.)

Please report issues to Hoc. Include information regarding the problem and the system you're using. Also, how fast your computer is (clock speed) and how much memory (installed RAM) you have.

Please play before you pay.