Here is a collaborative notepad with educational/science games, i.e. games that are:
- capturing parts of a real scientific phenomena,
- actually playable (you can play them for fun, not ones from the "for classroom only" category).
This list was started by Piotr Migdał (the author of Quantum Game with Photons), everyone is welcomed to contribute! (The easiest way is to edit this file, commit and create a Pull Request.)
A mini table of content: Physics, Biology Computer Science, Health, Mathematics, Sociology and economy, Humanities
- www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html
- special relativity theory
- contraction, time dilation, Doppler shift
- 2D arcade / puzzle
- free, on web (Flash)
- www.testtubegames.com/higgsflash.html
- elementary particles
- charges, antiparticles, neutrino oscillations, decay
- puzzle (Atomix-like)
- iOS game (2 chapter free, on web (Flash))
- gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light
- special relativity theory
- Doppler shift, geometric distortions
- 3D first person perspective walking
- free, Unity, code on GitHub: github.com/MITGameLab/OpenRelativity
- silverspaceship.com/chromatron
- geometric optics
- puzzle
- warning: a few elements are unreal (most are real, though)
- kerbalspaceprogram.com
- Newtonian physics, space program
- strategy
- testtubegames.com/bondbreaker.html
- electrostatics, chemistry
- 2d puzzle/action
- www.meqanic.com/app
- quantum computation and quantum information
- puzzle / blocks
- www.fungameco.com/relativity-wars.php
- space arcade / rts
- some parts of relativity
- quantumgame.io
- quantum mechanics, quantum optics
- puzzle / board / simulator
- source: github.com/stared/quantum-game
- blog post: Quantum mechanics for high-school students
- www.scienceathome.org/games
- adiabatic processes for quantum states
- puzzle / action
- citizen science
- www.kongregate.com/games/cellcraft/cellcraft
- cell biology
- real-time strategy
- Flash
- metnet-mbl.gdcb.iastate.edu
- plant and cell biology
- flight simulator
- nice descriptions of encountered elements
- fold.it
- protein conformation
- 3d puzzle
- citizen science
- boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/71021/evolution-origin-species
- evolution
- card game
- turing-game.pl
- Turing tape, programming
- puzzle
- http://www.spacechemthegame.com
- algorithms
- puzzle
- www.ceebot.com/colobot/index-e.php
- programming multiple, possibly interacting, robots
- www.zachtronics.com/tis-100
- programming
- multiple very constrained CPUs + communication
- SpaceChem-style optimization
- www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io
- programming
- puzzle
- author of other games: http://www.zachtronics.com/ including SpaceChem
- see also: Lessons Learned from Shenzhen I/O
- www.life-saver.org.uk
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- interactive video story, fast-paced
- www.depressionquest.com
- understanding depression (esp. for ones who never experienced it)
- text-based game
- agameofnumbers.com
- arithmetics
- puzzle/maze
- www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
- geometry of hyperbolic plane
- a rogue-like game
- www.roguetemple.com/z/hydra/
- arithmetics, a bit of number theory
- a rogue-like game
- www.mathbreakers.com
- arithmetics
- 3d adventure game
- euclidthegame.com
- planar geometry
- centerforgamescience.org/blog/portfolio/refraction
- fractions
- puzzle
- paper on optimizing: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/ordering/
- www.peacemakergame.com
- Israel-Palestine peace process (unfortunately outdated and too optimistic)
- strategy
- www.positech.co.uk/democracy3
- democracy, ruling country
- turn-based economical strategy
- ncase.me/polygons
- social diversity, racial segregation (and phase transitions)
- agent-based simulation
- gregkarber.com/philo
- simple 2d platformers (puzzle, not - action)
- philosophical concepts, fallacies
- sjbyrnes.com/1235
- electric circuits
- 'hydrodynamical' simulation
If it is possible to gamify so seemingly boring things as learning keyboard shortcuts, then sky's the limit!
- Do it in YAML? (To make it more semantic.)
- Make it more visual? (In the line of https://github.com/EliotAndres/kaggle-past-solutions.)
- Add other fields like release date or dev status?
- Add some standardized (600x400?) screenshots?