The Math Behind Spot it!
Jun 26, 2018
How did the creators of the game Spot It design the cards so that any two cards will always share one image in common? Join Science Mom to learn how to make your own game of Spot It.
Board games are coming out of the closet, with store fronts popping up in a lot of communities. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Gamelab is place where people can get together and play different types of games.
I played cards and board games as a kid – you know, Go Fish, Monopoly, Clue.
But these games – Citadels, Avalon, Settlers of Catan – they’re foreign to me.
Ludo is a board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to die rolls. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi, but simpler. The game and its variants are popular in many countries and under various names.
———- Of Dice and Men The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt Hardcover, 276 pages —————–
“Dungeons & Dragons is not a game that you necessarily win, or that even has an endpoint,” Ewalt says. “What you’re trying to do is grow your character over time, become more powerful, and tell a story.”
You know, I started to really fetishize those pieces of paper! This paper is important, this is my friend, this is my hero!
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Platforms for Teaching Kids
Alice http://www.alice.org
3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.
Kodu http://www.kodugamelab.com
Create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming.
International Academic Conference on Meaninful Play 2016
IGDA Curriculum Framework
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