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Educational/ecological games

Notes from a session held at the Luminous Green Retreat, 29th of April 2007

Angelo Vermeulen

Examples

Different types of educational games:

Question: not everyone plays games, isn’t that a problem?
Not really, games simply address a gamer audience which is a large 'target' group

Tools for creating educational games:

Good educational games only come out of teams with an adequate combination of different skills: apart from educators, people with a good understanding of gameplay and game culture are also needed; they need not necessarily to be aware of the specific issues addressed in the game.

Project Bart:

Project Tapio:

Promising prospects:

Some factors that make an educational game successful: