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Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society

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357 points pyduan | 2 comments | 08 Dec 14 14:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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stared ◴[08 Dec 14 22:39 UTC] No.8719699[source]▶
Wow! Not only an educational game about social diversity, but also: agent-based models, phase transitions, irreversible thermodynamics. And, last not least - cute shapes.

I am definitely adding it to my educational game recs: https://hackpad.com/Science-based-games-J0X4MSberlM

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1. notthemessiah ◴[09 Dec 14 03:46 UTC] No.8720909[source]▶
A few more interactive things to add to that list:

Interactive tutorial on sequent calculus: http://logitext.mit.edu/logitext.fcgi/tutorial

Math and Physics applets, mostly on wave mechanics (Java) http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

Ancient Greek Geometry http://sciencevsmagic.net/geo/

Dragonbox (iPhone game to teach algebra to kids) http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2012/06/dragonbox/

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2. stared ◴[09 Dec 14 10:39 UTC] No.8722064[source]▶
Thanks!

However, in this list I tried to focus on actual games:

- capturing parts of a real scientific phenomena,

- AND actually playable (you can play for fun, not "for classroom only").

[OK, maybe "Parable..." is here a stretch, but I could not resist adding it.]

(And, for example consider Falstad's applets as one of my biggest inspirations ever - especially the Ripple Tank and the 1D Quantum Mechanics; but also electric circuits are very nice, and inspired things like iCircuit!)