Kerbal Space Program
Recall that there are games that not only take time, but also teach something useful, and make it interesting! Kerbal Space Program is a game whose goal is to design a rocket yourself and successfully launch it!
An excellent spacecraft editor allows you to appreciate the advanced physical model of the game, you also need to monitor the level of fuel, and engine temperature. In the end, after a few trial and error, you can still escape beyond the atmosphere, but what about going into orbit or flying to the moon?
This game perfectly illustrates the words of Rafa Koster from the book “The Theory of Fun for Game Design”: “Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It makes the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, the puzzle in the game is a physical model, our goal: to solve it and launch the ship into space, that is, solve the puzzle Restrictions, i.e. the rules by which we will solve it are the properties of the spacecraft. And since the physical model is based on reality, and the context in which the puzzle is wrapped is sufficiently informative, we end up with “learning is the drug”.
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At the moment the project is in the active development stage, in the future the developers plan to add a full-fledged single-player campaign with space exploration, etc. The game also supports custom modifications.
One comment from YouTube, which inspired the creation of this post: " In the future, such games will occupy a worthy place in the educational process, along with books. As many books are now alone it is very hard to fight for the attention of children in the huge field of various media available to them right during the lesson on the smartphone.
You can download the Kerbal Space Program , as well as donate to developers, on the official website kerbalspaceprogram.com
An excellent spacecraft editor allows you to appreciate the advanced physical model of the game, you also need to monitor the level of fuel, and engine temperature. In the end, after a few trial and error, you can still escape beyond the atmosphere, but what about going into orbit or flying to the moon?
This game perfectly illustrates the words of Rafa Koster from the book “The Theory of Fun for Game Design”: “Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It makes the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, the puzzle in the game is a physical model, our goal: to solve it and launch the ship into space, that is, solve the puzzle Restrictions, i.e. the rules by which we will solve it are the properties of the spacecraft. And since the physical model is based on reality, and the context in which the puzzle is wrapped is sufficiently informative, we end up with “learning is the drug”.
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At the moment the project is in the active development stage, in the future the developers plan to add a full-fledged single-player campaign with space exploration, etc. The game also supports custom modifications.
One comment from YouTube, which inspired the creation of this post: " In the future, such games will occupy a worthy place in the educational process, along with books. As many books are now alone it is very hard to fight for the attention of children in the huge field of various media available to them right during the lesson on the smartphone.
You can download the Kerbal Space Program , as well as donate to developers, on the official website kerbalspaceprogram.com
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/143380/
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