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MoleculAr JIg BLOg

Hello biology game fans,

I am trying to blog more often. Pardon me if this is boring. Honestly, I have so much going on right now, there is no way this could be boring!!

First of all, Strategic Repair Protocol is coming along! We have a first build.

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Posted in Biology, Chemistry, Development Blog, Game Design and Development, Newsletter


Melanie Spoke at the Marian Koshland Museum of Science

See Melanie’s Talk on the Koshland Museum of Science website.

Get my slides here!

And you can watch me here:

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


User Interface notes

Our goal: Get the average 12 through 50 year old to play with molecular cell biology and biochemistry.

Plan: Create a commercially successful game that requires the player to use proteins for their correct functions in order to win.

Problem: What is molecular cell biology and biochemistry?

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What can a 9 year old do to learn real biology?

I met some terrific families at the Marian Koshland Science Museum this weekend. Some kids and parents wanted to know about how to learn about computers and programming.  Others wanted to know more about biology. One parent emailed me later to ask about his 9-year old son who is especially interested in biology.

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Guest Post, Immune Defense Discussion

Elizabeth “Li” Van Nostrand writes about biology, psychology and video games at her blog, AcesoUnderGlass.com.  She is a rare sciencer/gamer person.  She was kind enough to give us some comments on her experience playing Immune Defense.  My replies are in grey.  You can see, she gave me some excellent questions.  

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Mark Cerny 2002 DICE Game Production

This talk and John Cleese talk both make important points about creativity: most importantly, you need to make time for it in your schedule!

I decided to post this talk here because I watch it so often.

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Zombie Pathogen!?

What could it be?

The Indie Stone, makers of Project Zomboid, an awesome cooperative survival game on Steam- loved Immune Defense so much that they asked us to do a Zombie pathogen.  We are researching whether a virus or a bacteria will be our Zombie vector….

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Music and Games Fest Indie VideoGame Showcase (MAGFest MIVS)

Immune 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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Interviewed at MAGFest by Game Ethus

John Biddle was interviewed at MAGFest by Game Enthus

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Interviewed by Amanda of Bitch Team Alpha

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