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It's easy to poke holes in government program and claim it's not friendly to a commercial mindset. The goal is to build compelling educational content for free

• Kapura 3y ago
  If people were motivated to build compelling education content for free, congress would not need to incentivize it with a contest, no? Incentives aren't there. As somebody who has judged indie games festival entries, I can tell you that even there it's rare to get a game that feels like it's complete, and even rarer to find one that feels like it's actually executing a gameplay idea. I don't know many folks who would bend over backwards to make a game for the government.
• conductr 3y ago
  > I see this as a net positive and a good first attempt to do this. I'm hoping future iterations do a better job of incentivizing creators to make games for public education. My take is that a good first attempt would cast a larger net through proper incentives and/or less restrictions. Then as they iterate they can decide where to tighten up things. As is, this seems to be completely lacking any inspiration and actually demotivational