MelanieImmune Defense was one of 40 indie games that were chosen to be part of MAGFest’s Indie Video Game Showcase this year! We received a lot of great comments, we brought three laptops and all three were occupied just about every minute… people happily dove into our strange and beautiful world,
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MelanieMelanie was interviewed by Greg Chudecke who just started a podcast called Independent Game Development.
http://indiegamerdev.com/?p=22
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MelanieHear about being a scientist who starts making video games: interview with game creator Melanie Stegman about biochemistry and about what she hopes to accomplish with Immune Defense.
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MelanieWe would love your feedback here!
Immune defense is a strategy game in which you earn to master molecular behavior to win. Year, it is a serious game, that is, you will learn something that is relevant to the universe you inhabit (as opposed to learning reams of details about a fantasy universe,
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MelanieA video game is a prepared space (Kurt Squire’s term, I believe) where people can see what you have prepared for them. A classroom is a place where teachers prepare a lecture, a discussion and group activities that should lead a group of students all together, at the same time,
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MelanieEveryone knows how to kill zombies. Why don’t people know how to kill measles?
A lack of understanding of molecular biology is what stands between our current society and one in which the average person appreciates modern biomedical science. We know from school that cells make energy, that atoms make up everything and that proteins are “sometimes enzymes.”
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MelanieBackground information: Melanie designed Immune Defense based on her research on Immune Attack, a 3D first person shooter style game where a player uses a microbot to activate proteins. Immune Attack, released in 2008) was developed by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Learning Technologies Program, which Melanie managed from 2008-2013.
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MelanieThe 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.
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We list every science game we know of on the Science Game Center! Made a science game? Looking for one? Have an opinion about one? Go to the SGC now.
