Upon reading the title for this thread, one might think that it is about educational games, which is partially accurate, but this discussion will, with any luck, have more substance to it than that. Basically, what I'm asking is, what are your experiences where games have mixed with education? The most recent for me was probably when I wrote a paper last year about how violent video games and movies did not cause Columbine, and how games are a legitimate art form. Aside from that, I also remember that when I was in Elementary School, we played a game called Math Blaster at one point, and it was actually really fun. Also, my school's computers each had two non-educational games on them, which we students were allowed to play during extra time that we may have had during class sessions in which we were in the computer lab, or during recess when weather prevented us from going outside. One of the games was called Bugdom, and was a 3D platformer where one played as a pillbug, and the other, the name of which I cannot remember, was a 3D platformer/shooter where one played as, wait for it, a cloned raptor cyborg sent from the distant future back to prehistoric times in order to collect raptor eggs and fight other dinosaurs with laser guns.
...Yeah. It was awesome.
...Yeah. It was awesome.
