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What are the new edu game powerhouses? Minecraft comes to mind. Does it share the same age demographic as Zoombinis or Reader Rabbit?
by harrisonjackson 7y ago
What are the new edu game powerhouses? Minecraft comes to mind. Does it share the same age demographic as Zoombinis or Reader Rabbit?
- SuoDuanDao 7y agoI believe Minecraft is something parents play with their children, but that's anecdotal.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoKerbal Space Program probably qualifies.
- hedora 7y agoI’m looking for educational software; it’s difficult to find anything comparable to what existed when I was growing up. I’d definitely pay $10’s for games comparable in quality to turtle, number munchers, the one with the cups and the fluids where you had to measure out exact volumes, etc. This industry reminds me of what happened to atari: the ecosystem got flooded with $1 garbage, and the quality developers got pushed out. The game industry recovered due to a technology transition combined with a business model innovation (more powerful consoles with severe licensing restrictions to keep quality up). It is a shame that recovery hasn’t happened for educational software.
- CondensedBrain 7y agoEvery Minecraft guide is trapped in a YouTube video made by someone who sounds like a teenager or younger, so the answer is probably yes.
- rossdavidh 7y agoI have had younger coworkers tell me that they got started programming using Minecraft.