The Middlesbrough-based company has worked closely with SDS during the pandemic to provide ways to deliver Classroom Clash face to face, on tablet devices in classrooms, and through a variety of remote online sessions on Windows’s PCs.

SDS aims to improve the response of education, training, and careers services to the needs of employers and ensure young people have the best chance of succeeding in the world of work by exploring their options and helping them understand the wide range of future careers and opportunities available.

Each game is designed to encourage students to consider the skills they possess and how these relate to each career, while introducing some of the tasks and opportunities within these sectors.

For example, those playing the childcare game earn points by considering children’s moods and selecting an activity that makes them happy, while the cyber security game involves selecting the correct anti-virus tools capable of deflecting incoming viruses.

In the advanced manufacturing game, players build a Mars rover in an advanced manufacturing facility by attaching the correct components at exactly the right time to speed up a conveyor belt, while the object of the green energy game is to lower your carbon footprint by installing a range of energy saving measures to a house.