| Feature | Educational Benefit | |---------|----------------------| | Familiar characters | Reduces foreignness of coding; increases initial click-through rate. | | Real-time execution | Makes abstract cause-effect relationships tangible (e.g., "If I remove the sunflower block, I lack sun to plant a peashooter"). | | Forced debugging | Zombies reaching the house is a low-stakes, high-clarity error signal. | | Audio cues | Satisfying "chomp" sounds for correct actions reinforce success. |