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Episode 1: SpaceChem
Game Retro
English - August 08, 2018 00:00 - 28 minutes - 20.9 MBVideo Games Leisure videogames games journalism journalistic research science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
SpaceChem is a puzzle game about chemistry with solutions that resemble programming challenges. Playing the game teaches the player things, so developer Zach Barth offered the game to schools as an educational tool. But why do educators use games like Minecraft for education and not games like SpaceChem?