Recent Games
Coconut Run
A physics game similar to Line Rider although this uses components rather than drawings. Build a sturdy cart, then drive it across rough terrain without spilling the cargo. Interspersed with the activity are screens with information about subjects such as turning coconut fibers into insulation.
http://www.ingenuitywelcome.com/game/ Launchpad
Another get-the-ball-into-the-hole game, but relying on objects such as turbines powered by steam and wind, photovoltaic cells, melting ice, etc.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/ Freedom from AIDS
Eight Mobile phone games on HIV/AIDS awareness with Audio effects reaching over 42 million users.
http://freedomhivaids.in Escape from Paradise
In 150 turns, generate income and build power-generating facilities
http://electrocity.co.nz/ Stop Disasters
In any of the five scenarios you are given (more to come), you are dropped into a portion of the world susceptible to the kind of Natural Disaster about to strike the unknowing inhabitants. Fortunately, using your God-like pre-eminence, you know there will be a disaster occurring soon and it's up to you to use logic, strategy and a little bit of trial and error (Rome wasn't destroyed and rebuilt in a day, you know) to save the town as best you can.
http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/ Nobel Prize Games
A number of games, each focusing on one discipline, physics, literature, medicine, etc. Most of the games are quiz-style, asking the player to recall information.
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/ Pandemic
You are a virus and have 200 days to kill the entire population of the Earth. You can control how you mutate in order to balance transmission vs. lethality.
http://www.newpandemic.net/work_games.html Climate Challenge
Resource-management sim. As the "President of the European Nations" you must radically reduce your people's carbon emissions over the course of a century, while remaining popular enough to stay in office.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/index_1.shtml The Pipeline Pinball Energy Thrill Ride Game
In this hilarious serious pinball game, your goal is to Generate Energy Diversity. Will you go after fossil fuel points? Or will you make the extra effort to open the alternative energy targets? Your choice.
http://www.sundialmedia.com Walk the Line
http://mysite.verizon.net/debdanie1/WalktheLine.html HEALTHSIMNET
Players negotiate a series of conversations with selected players in a network of health care workers and lay network members in order to achieve a goal. The scenarios are created from data collected with actual HIV care professionals and other community members.
http://www.sfu.ca/~cdc/healthsimnet/resources.html Industry Player
Be a business tycoon. MMOG play online with 500 other online players simultaneously. Complex learning experience - Good teaching tool, on trusts, takeovers, inventory management, social responsibility and pricing.
http://industryplayer.com Karma Tycoon
Run not-for-profits in 11 cities across the US. Requires registration
http://karmatycoon.com Go Rabbit, Go!
An example of an 'accessible game', rather than a 'learning game', this demonstrates aspects of accessible design as applied to game design, with a single switch (space bar) as an input. A disabled rabbit has to collect all the carots on each level without getting caught by the tortoise.
http://www.acetio.com/gorabbitgo/goRabbit.html A Force More Powerful
Overthrow the government using only non-violent methods
http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/game/index.php Math Baseball
Solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems
http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html FunBrain
Games and comics for elementary school students
http://www.funbrain.com/
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