I have edited my post to reflect the fact that visitors can review the games. I didn’t realize that you had only launched at the beginning of the month.

I am glad to hear you are thinking about offering more advanced search options. Particularly since the site serves such a wide array of audiences. (Parents, Teachers, and Students.) As your inventory of games grows this will undoubtedly become more useful.

Keep up the good work!
-Trevor

I am the Editor of Super Smart Games and I wanted to thank you for your review of our new website. We officially launched the site on September 1st, so it is fantastic to read impressions of our work so far.

I would like to mention that, at this point, the site is primarily designed for parents and students, but teachers are certainly welcomed. We will be adding a section that will be more specifically for educators, but as of yet, it is still in development.

I do have to beg to differ with you on your assessment that our site doesn’t offer visitors the opportunity to post game reviews of their own, or that we don’t provide links to the actual games that we profile. Indeed, those are two of the features upon which the foundation of our site is built.

For example, the game that is in your screen shot above is “Discover Babylon”. It is the first game in the list of History Games. These lists are for general at-a-glance purposes. Users can quickly scan these game “snapshots” to see what platform a game plays on (Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox etc.), read a brief game summary, and determine if the game is free, playable online, or has a free trial. If our users like what they see, they can open up the game’s in-depth profile page.

This is easily done by clicking either the game’s title, the game’s picture, or the “Read more…” link. The profile page for Discover Babylon is here: http://www.supersmartgames.com/Big_Kids/History/Discover_Babylon/. The game profiles include much greater detail on each game, including feature lists, game trailers, links to external reviews, links to walk-throughs or Teacher’s Guides etc. Each game is different, of course, but we try to provide as much information on every game as possible to help our users make informed decisions about the games in which they have an interest.

And as you rightly point out, it is shortsighted to discuss or review games on the Internet without connecting visitors to the games themselves. This is why every game on our site has a direct link to the site where they can play, download, get a free trial, or purchase the game of their choice. In cases where we have a direct relationship with the developer or publisher, our visitors can interact with a game trial’s download dialog-box without leaving our site at all.

Your criticism of our current search capabilities is probably quite justified, and I am grateful to you for pointing it out. It gives us good reason to have a second look at a feature that, while serviceable, could easily benefit from more robust and discerning output. Our games are already cross-referenced by subject matter and by age group, but more options are always helpful.

Thanks again for the review and for the opportunity to respond.

Best Regards,

Elle Sanders
Editor-in-chief
SuperSmartGames.com