Christopher Hernandez

New Home for Edified Bytes Podcast

The Edified Bytes podcast has long been hosted by Sounder.fm and unfortunately, Sounder will no longer be an audio hosting platform. Because of their decision to move away from podcast hosting, Edified Bytes is now being hosted on a new service. Another update is that the "Should Your Kids

Should Your Kids Play

Should Your Kids Play: Windbound

Windbound is a survival game with very unique aspects. The base mechanics of wind bound requires the player to traverse the sea, or rather the forbidden islands while also trying to survive.

Should Your Kids Play

Should Your Kids Play: Hellpoint

Hellpoint is a souls like action role playing game that features many of the same game mechanics.

Should Your Kids Play

Should Your Kids Play: Scavengers

Scavengers is a team based battle royale game that puts players into a hybrid PVE & PVP sandbox survival game. Players have their choice of different classes which bring different survival benefits to a team.

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Should Your Kids Play: Second Extinction

Second Extinction is a new early access game available for PC where players must combat a Dinosaur invasion on earth in the distant future.

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Should Your Kids Play: Elex

ELEX is a post-apocalyptic story about the planet Magalan.

The Alternative

How Do I Record My Video Games?!?!?

A How To on capturing video game gameplay with a capture card.

Should Your Kids Play

Should Your Kids Play: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a dark fantasy action adventure game that has us follow Senua who is a PICT warrior who is making her way to Helheim in order to win back the soul of her dead love from the goddess Hela.

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Should Your Kids Play: Shadwen

Shadwen is a third person stealth action game with some very unique gameplay mechanics.

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Should Your Kids Play: Outward

Outward is an open world fantasy role playing game with survival elements built into gameplay.

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Should Your Kids Play: Speed Brawl

Speed Brawl is a unique game to me as its built to play like a racing combat game and references itself as the mix between both sonic and streets of rage.

Media Literacy

Gamification With Minecraft

Minecraft Education Edition is a game based learning tool modeled after the popular video game Minecraft.

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Should Your Kids Play: Valheim

Valheim is a sandbox open world role playing game based in Norse Mythology. The player starts their journey in the afterlife.

Educational Games

Interland: New Media Literacy/Digital Citizenship Game by Google

Interland is this really unique game developed by Google that teaches kids about the foundations of Media Literacy.

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Should Your Kids Play: Apex Legends

Apex Legends is a hero based first person shooter battle royal game.

Should Your Kids Play

Should Your Kids Play: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Jedi: Fallen Order follows the story Cal Kestis who narrowly escaped of Order 66 thanks to the sacrifice of his Jedi Master. Cal has been thrust into a journey of helping a fellow Jedi in trying to figure out how they can restore the Jedi Order.

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Should Your Kids Play: One Step From Eden

Sorry for pronouncing this one wrong several times during the episode, but One Step From Eden is a 2D fast paced rogue like action adventure deck building game that offers players a unique gameplay style.

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Should Your Kids Play: Cave Story+

Cave Story+ is a 2D platformer shooter where you play as a character who has awoken in a strange world and have suddenly found yourself charged with figuring out who you are, where you are, and how to protect the defenseless people in this strange world.

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Should Your Kids Play: Path of Giants

Path of Giants is a puzzle adventure game where you get to control 3 explorers who are making their way through an icy mountain filled with puzzles.

Media Literacy

What is Media Literacy?

Welcome to the new segment: Media Literacy Corner where we talk all things media literacy!

Should Your Kids Play

Should Your Kids Play: Black Desert Online

Black Desert Online is a sandbox mmorpg action adventure game. Unlike traditional MMORPG games, BDO allows players to hack, slash, dodge and perform combos on enemy NPC's.

Should Your Kids Play

Should Your Kids Play: Spelunky

Spelunky is a 2D platformer game that has the feel and vibes of an Indiana Jones movie.

Should Your Kids Play

Should Your Kids Play: Indivisible

Indivisible is an action role-playing platform game set in a fantasy world filled with monsters and bad guys to beat up. The game features a real time turn based combat system.

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Should Your Kids Play: Jotun

Jotun is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. In Jotun, you play Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla.

Should Your Kids Play

Should Your Kids Play: Deiland

Deiland is a 3D sandbox game that involves the elements of crafting, farming, building, and fighting.