Guest Post: Teaching Math Through Games

While visiting a grade 4 classroom in 2005, I did an impromptu “nasty” thing. I challenged the students with an unsolved problem of mathematics from 1937 and asked them to solve it. I didn't tell them...

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SARCIA, Where Indie Games Meet High-Art

SARCIA is an indepedent video game series that exemplifies the beautiful merger of art and gaming. It even adopts the format of a stylistic TV series. Each month, a new episode will be brought to the...

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Automation Lets You Become a Car Tycoon

Automation was first born out of a casual conversation between Andrew and myself about the old genre of tycoon games dying out, and there never was a really great Car Tycoon game. The ones that did...

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Ultima Community Rallies for Ultimate Collector's Guide

The Ultima community is a vibrant, motivated, and passionate group of gamers and game-lovers. Since 1981, the Ultima series has generated dozens of games and peripheral products. Now, Stephen Emond...

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Whiskey Planet - A Virtual World is Crowdfunded

"Whiskey Planet is a brutally realistic, gritty and heavily-stylized post-apocolyptic survival sim game." They had be at the first line. Being a big gaming fan, I was intrigued. So I needed to talk...

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