{"id":1979,"date":"2012-06-25T17:59:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T16:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2012-06-25T17:59:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T16:59:51","slug":"gamesthatteach-different-snakes-how-they-look-how-they-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/25\/gamesthatteach-different-snakes-how-they-look-how-they-act\/","title":{"rendered":"GamesThatTeach: Different snakes, how they look, how they act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snakes on a Cartesian Plane<\/a><\/p>\n

Interesting because:<\/p>\n

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  1. Each snake has to be unlocked by in-game activities that are (sometimes) related to the snake itself\n
  2. Every snake changes the gameplay in a way that’s always related to the snake itself (with a small piece of text hinting at – or directly explaining – why)\n<\/ol>\n

    Things I’d like to add:<\/p>\n

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    1. Photos of each snake when you start the level, and each time you die, combined with the snake name; a passive reinforecement\n<\/ol>\n

      First in a series…<\/h3>\n

      I’ve decided to start grabbing and posting tiny summaries of games I encounter that – usually accidentally – are teaching something clear. I don’t care about … actually, no – I detest<\/em><\/strong> – educational games \/ edugames \/ edutainment. Every game teaches; every game<\/strong> teaches.<\/p>\n

      It’s just that usually the game-designers weren’t particularly concerned about “what” it teaches – and it’s normally quite difficult to work it out.<\/p>\n

      Incidentally, gamesthatteach.com is apparently being cyber-squatted by Monster Jobs – looks like Monster is focussed on subverting Google to get money at any cost, no matter what gets trampled in their way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Snakes on a Cartesian Plane Interesting because: Each snake has to be unlocked by in-game activities that are (sometimes) related to the snake itself Every snake changes the gameplay in a way that’s always related to the snake itself (with a small piece of text hinting at – or directly explaining – why) Things I’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}