Talking about Gamestar on Design Minds

I wrote this brief article for Design Minds, an Australian blog dedicated to inspiring design thinking in educators. From the article:

A representation of an ecosystem that explores the consumption of energy over time. A study of the attractive and repulsive forces of the atom. A 3D visualization of a T-cell as it seeks out pathogens in the body. Each of these is a sophisticated scientific model built by a middle or high school student. But the students aren’t building those models in science class: they’re designing them into video games.

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My youth game design hero

This amazing video from edutopia's Is School Enough? series features my main man and youth game design superstar Rhys. Rhys is a former STEM Challenge winner and one of the most prolific designers in Gamestar Mechanic.

The only thing worse than being Slashdotted about is not being Slashdotted about

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Puzzling

My attempt to use some of the new mechanics we've recently added to Gamestar Mechanic to make a puzzler:

History comes to life

Play what is surely the greatest video game series ever made about the Shackleton Expedition.

Part I:

Part II: