In this holiday season, it is great to have alternatives to yet another lego+movie game tie-in. Also, perhaps it will give ideas as we begin to move into science festival season.
The original article lists:
- Kerbal Space Program (great reviews, $23, Mac or Windows)
- Minecraft (many platforms, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, in browser, etc.)
- World of Goo (many platforms, Windows, Mac, Wii, and others)
- Amazing Alex, (iOS, $0.99)
- Patterns (Windows and Mac, currently $10, regularly $20)
- Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts (XBox 360)
- Fantastic Contraption (in browser but page is covered in ads)
- Orbiter 2010 (Windows, free)
- Space Chem (iOS $6, Android $?, Windows, Mac, Linus are $10)
- The Codex of Alchemical Engineering (Flash & browser)
With kids that love science, I'm looking forward to the winter break and a chance to give a few more of these a try. In particular, the Space Chem and the others from ZachtronicsIndustries.com look like a good match for my kids. We have World of Goo on the Wii, it had their interest for a while but faded.
There is a long list of mathematical and logic games as well that are not about science. I haven't started compiling a list of them yet.
What am I missing on the science side? Thoughts on good math games? (Especially beyond the variations of basic arithmetic practice.)
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