Re:Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
by jobs_throwaway on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:51PM
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PHDs are never going to be learning through games but I think at lower levels of education there's a ton of room to inspire a desire to learn something more deeply through games.
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Re:Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
by lukeschlather on Friday August 26, 2022 @08:09PM
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Kerbal Space Program seems like a game which both can both inspire newcomers and could also actually be used by PHDs to bounce around ideas. At the least it seems like some actual astrophysics PHDs rely on it for inspiration.
Re:Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
by xdavidliu on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:57PM
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I agree that games intended to teach academic subjects are very hard to get right. Interestingly, when you take the arrow in the other direction, ordinary video games have sometimes been the arena of some very advanced "doing science", e.g.:
"Speedrunning as a gateway to scientific endeavours" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_1lQ2KH50
"The Complete History of the Super Mario 64 A Button Challenge" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94lfiY18_CgWGQzweD_a...