Blog Archives

Science Game Center

The Science Game Center is an online magazine for games that teach science.  Card games, Android phone games, PC/Mac download games, browser games and iPad games… search our games by platform, by subject and by age. You’ll love our site for its friendliness, clarity and usefulness.  You can add your own contribution by reviewing games you have played or used to teach.

Read more ›

Posted in Education and Evaluation, Game Design and Development, Newsletter
Tags:

New trailer

Here is our new gameplay trailer.   This version has our director’s commentary ….

Read more ›

Posted in Game Design and Development


Kickstarter OMG!

Yes, Kickstarter is a lot of work.  I only have time to post this because I am waiting for the iOS on my laptop to update. I only paused to update it because I need iMovie.  I need iMovie to make game play videos, because I need videos and I am a novice video editor.

Read more ›

Posted in Game Design and Development


Troubleshooting Immune Defense Demo

Steps and possible trouble while loading and playing www.ImmuneDefenseGame.com

1. If you are on www.ImmuneDefenseGame.com, this is our Kickstarter Page.  There is a link to the demo is on this page.  The direct link is here:  www.MolecularJig.com/demo.

Read more ›

Posted in Game Design and Development, Newsletter
Tags:

Building our confidence in our abilities to understand science

It is well known that people walk away from STEM careers despite their sincere interest and excellent abilities.  Most of the reasons listed for why people who have expressed an interest, chosen the field, have done as well as any one else, would choose to leave or feel out of place have something to do with a feeling of not belonging.

Read more ›

Posted in Education and Evaluation, Game Design and Development, Newsletter
Tags:

Talking game design and adaptive immunity

Here I am talking about how to make a game out T cells and Macrophages. I am speaking with Alec Redwood, an Australian virologist and immunologist who was in Seattle for a few weeks.  We discuss the interactions between Macrophages and the adaptive immune system and how we built a game around these molecular mechanisms.

Read more ›

Posted in Game Design and Development, Newsletter
Tags: , , , , ,

Kickstarting Immune Defense

Immune Defense, our video game, has a lot of potential. Scientists are impressed that many fundamental concepts are clearly and intuitively presented. Game players are happy because they get to do things, see the cells react and make decisions about what to make the cells do. The game has all its parts: cells to buy,

Read more ›

Posted in Game Design and Development, Newsletter
Tags:

Is text still important in games?

Recently, we added the ability in JigScript to do console style text in your games. Like everything we do in JigScript we strived to keep it as simple as possible.  For example, if you add a GUIText object named guitext to your scene and in your JigScript you use the following code:

Text.Print(guitext, 

Read more ›

Posted in Game Design and Development


Getting to the fun part of biochemistry: Games!! This is why Games!

Seeing what things do. This is science, as I see it. What does this thing do when I put it next to that thing? What happens if that thing is missing? How do these things develop from this simple group of things to this complicated group of things? If I poke it while it is developing,

Read more ›

Posted in Education and Evaluation, Game Design and Development, Newsletter
Tags:

ExtensionMaker for JigScript

JigScript announcement, Writing Extensions will be even easier…
The next Major update for JigScript ,version 1.1.0, will include a new tool ExtensionMaker. This tool will allow you to automatically create JigScript extension functions for 3rd party plug ins.  (Your requests have been heard,

Read more ›

Posted in Game Design and Development


Get our news

* indicates required
Send me *
Email Format