The flash community is a wonderful, expansive, and organic beast.
Today's dose of flash brings us CellCraft, where you build and discover about the life and workings of a cell as you help it go about its business.
[Edit: I have disabled embedding on this game due to its irritating sound, so play it here.]
There have been some incredible offerings in the past, such as a flash showing the scale of the universe from the very largest (outer edges) down to the very small (quantum foam).
In this case, CellCraft seems to be another excellent educational tool for those studying biology as well as to provide to children so that they can absorb the wonders of science in a palatable way. CellCraft explains things as you go as well as provides an inbuilt encyclopedia so you can go back and read about how the cell works.
Good job, CellCraft, you give me another source of hope that facts can be as fun as pseudoscience or occult TV programmes.
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Other links you might want to check out:
Newgrounds - flash mega site for games, movies, and more.
Armor Games - an excellent "best of" site (a spin-off from Newgrounds?)
4 comments:
Awesome! Might show this to my 12 year-old son who is a gaming nut. Might as well get him learning something too.
An excellent idea. It also encourages me that this WAS a worthwhile post :)
The game is very impressive. I know a bit about biology but this game leaves me in the dust. I'm having to relearn cell biology in order to strategise my building processes in order to defeat the evil viruses!
Absolute genius game.
Wow, that is really neat. I've just spent the last three hours or so on it and have only just managed to get to the end.
Now I've got a much better sense of what goes on inside a cell.
Cheers!
Nice to hear from you again, Damian. I check your blog every now and then, its usually good for a think.
Yes despite playing most of it the other day I actually only finished CellCraft today (i had it paused before the last level).
I seem to have really got the hang of it, cells can be really nasty critters once you understand their defence mechanisms properly!
I reflect your sentiment, it really taught me a thing or three about the mystery that is the cell.
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