Tim, Megan, and Phill are back for round 3 in the "Science & Videogames" series! Last year saw science and video games battling it out for supremacy, but this year we reconcile the two unexpected...
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PAX West 2016 – The Quantum Roots of Alternate Reality Narratives in Games
Game narratives are permeated with alternate realities as a plot device (Half-Life, Bioshock Infinite, Kingdom Hearts, Ultima Online, Chrono Cross, et al.) These parallel universes have roots in the...
What happens when games physics go bad? What does it take to make truly compelling virtual worlds? At PAX Aus 2014 scientists and educators Megan, Tim, and Phill showed how science and video games...
What is the number one videogame being played at NASA? What can students learn from playing Minecraft at school? How much of the science in Mass Effect is actually real? How can playing games solve...
She’s a one ton robot scientist with laser vision, a drill-arm, and a jetpack. She’s real. We call her Curiosity, and she just landed on Mars. See the NASA games that let you land, drive, and...