3D Language: Spain by Coccinella Development
3D Language: Spain is a virtual Spanish town for learning and practicing Spanish. A robust speech recognition engine combined with a fully 3D environment makes for a compelling interactive experience. The developers went so far as to live in Spain to make sure they got it right!
educational game
Windows
Be the Dinosaur by Sickhead Games
Be the Dinosaur is a museum exhibit at the Louisville Science Center. The exhibit features t he world's first dinosaur interactive simulation. Visitors travel back in time 65+ million years ago and learn about the environment, plants, animals and insects of the time along with the relationships between them in an accurate, hands-on interactive world!
educational game
simulation
Mac
Windows
Coolsailors by Newyork Virtual
Coolsailors is a massively multi-player online game integrating learning science and technology into gameplay. In this magnificently designed virtual world, players conduct scientific research/experiments and socialize/trade with one another. Players must also build spaceships and fight their way to other planets in their dream to explore the universe.
action-adventure
educational game
fps
mmo
rpg
rts
Windows
DimensionM by Tabula Digita
DimensionM is an immersive video game world that engages students in the instruction and learning of mathematics. Pre-algebra and algebra objectives are covered through a series of missions that bring math into a world that today's students understand. Students become so captivated in solving problems that they forget they're learning, but they don't forget what they've learned.
educational game
Mac
Windows
Escape from Diab by Archimage
Nominated for a Webby Award, Escape from Diab is a unique educational game. Players fight alongside Deejab and Delinda against evil King Etes to turn the city of Diab back into the Golden City. The King has banished all exercise opportunities in the city and is instead feeding the population unlimited amounts of free junk food. The only way to win the fight and defeat King Etes is by making healthy lifestyle choices - such as eating right and exercising.
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action-adventure
educational game
serious game
Windows
ICED: I Can End Deportation by Breakthrough
The objective of ICED is to become a citizen of the United States. As an immigrant teen, you are avoiding ICED officers, choosing right from wrong and answering questions on immigration. But if you answer questions incorrectly or make poor decisions, you will be detained with no respect for your human rights.
educational game
Mac
Windows
Interactive Parables by GraceWorks Interactive
Interactive Parables is a fun, 3D game combining lessons from the Parables of Jesus. Within the game, you will fly, slide, jump, bounce, dodge, search and solve puzzles in 20 game levels.
educational game
puzzle
Windows
Ion Field by Giant Revolving Brain
Ion Field is used in chemistry classes at Loraine County Community College to teach and reinforce learning of the Octet Rule. You combine compound that satisfy the octet rule. The game has several levels with increasing difficulty starting from color coded elements to removing all color and requiring completing a number of compounds in a timed period.
educational game
Windows
Johnny's Piggy Bank by Silhouette Studios
Johnny's Piggy Bank is a financial education game aimed at children. Using fun jobs to earn pocket money, you learn about important aspects of Financial education, whilst saving up to purchase items such as go-carts, bikes, pet animals, clothing etc. You must budget and decide best when and how to spend your money.
educational game
Linux
Mac
Windows
Kanji Kami by Eric Robinson
In Kanji Kami, players take on the role of Matsuo Basho as he strives to restore order to the ancient Kanji Scrolls. The game is intended to be passively educational: players will begin associating symbols with their readings as they play the game.
educational game
student project
Mac
Windows
Kanji Kansen by Tanoku
Kanji Kansen is an educational game based on the Chinese kanji characters that are used in Japan. Players must complete timed levels by finding different kanji readings.
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casual game
educational game
Windows
Math Gardener by Hotshot
Help the flowers grow as you practice answering math problems. As math problems are shown at the top of the screen, position the rain cloud over the flower pot with the correct answer.
educational game
matching
XBLA
MoonBaseOne by We Create Games
MoonBaseOne is an educational video game developed as a tool to be used at FOGE summer camps to teach kids about space. The game centers on an astronaut, who newly arrived to MoonBaseOne.
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action-adventure
educational game
Windows
Nanoswarm: Invasion from Inner Space by Archimage
Nanoswarm: Invasion from Inner Space is a serious videogame adventure in healthy eating and exercise. Nanoswarm's rich, immersive role-playing puts teenagers inside a videogame that blends sci-fi action and adventure with evidence-based behavior modification theories.
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action-adventure
educational game
serious game
Windows
Neuromatrix by Morphonix
You play a secret agent infiltrating a top-secret neuroscience research facility. Your mission: to track down and root out the Nanobots that have invaded the brains of the scientists there. If you fail, the Nanobots and the secret entity that spawned them will take over the Earth, reprogramming the human brain into docile submission.
action-adventure
educational game
Windows
PowerUp by IBM
Hundreds of years ago, the nations of our planet realized the harmful side effects of burning fossil fuels; these actions were damaging the atmosphere and changing the climate. Now you can save Planet Helios from ecological devastation in this exciting
world created by IBM.
action-adventure
educational game
virtual world
Mac
Windows
Rapunsel by Rapunsel Developers
Rapunsel is single-player dance game designed to teach computer programming to 10-12 year olds. The project was started with the goal of empowering young girls to learn programming as a way of addressing the critical shortage of women in technology related careers and degree programs. Dance competitions resemble call and response (DDR-style) challenges, with players using moves they’ve prepared ahead of time on the fly.
educational game
rhythm
Windows
Simulynx by Terris-Hill
Simulynx is a serious game created to trains new workers for potentially dangerous work on an oil rig.
educational game
serious game
simulation
Windows
Snellman by LudoCraft
Snellman is an educational game featuring interesting historical details as well as problem-solving tasks. This game is targeted at students between 7 and 15 years old.
educational game
serious game
Windows
Space Math by Hotshot
Space Math may seem like a simple space shooter at first, but once you start playing you won't be able to put it down. Solve the math problem and shoot the correct alien ship. This game includes exciting game play and a high score.
educational game
scrolling shooter
XBLA
Spatial Information Exploration & Visualization Environment by Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information
This project is unique in its ability to provide both an automated creation of virtual worlds from spatial data infrastructure and the subsequent ability to link the virtual world back to a geographic information system. The link allows for editing of the world in either 2D or 3D, operation of process and analytical models in the GIS and immediate transfer of outcomes into the virtual world for natural interpretation.
educational game
serious game
Windows
The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time by IBM
The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time is a partnership between the Palace Museum and IBM. The goal of the project is to provide the means for a world-wide audience to celebrate and explore aspects of Chinese culture and history.
educational game
simulation
virtual world
Linux
Mac
Windows
Virtual Sambor Prei Kuk by UC Berkeley
The Virtual Reconstruction Project of the central temple at Sambor Prei Kuk, in Cambodia, is an attempt to apply 21st century technology to 7th century cultural heritage. Sambor Prei Kuk (SPK) provides the earliest record of Khmer temples, predating better known (and better preserved) Angkor Wat by several centuries. This simulation lets users explore that world through digital technology.
educational game
simulation
virtual world
Windows
Virtual Warrane by Cyberdreaming
The Virtual Warrane Laboratory is on display at Customs House in Sydney's Circular Quay. The exhibit is an interactive multimedia work that is being updated weekly whilst it is on display. This virtual world presents knowledge about the cultural heritage of the Cadi(gal) people from Sydney Cove.
educational game
virtual world
Windows