Not, that is, unless you work in the video game industry. Video games and work don’t usually go together. It can even be gaining a sense of scale of the universe in a game like Everything. It can be the way different elements combine properties in games like Zelda Breath of the Wild. It can be the embodied understanding of gravity and momentum in real-time physics games like Portal. This can be the simple chemical puzzle-solving of a game like Sokobond. It's true not just about their game that unlocks the wonder of chemistry, but about many other games that often get children doing science without even realising it. That quote from the creators of Happy Atoms inspired this list of games. Knowledge of chemistry or other sciences is necessary to solve many real-world problems, but the way it's taught now often fails to capture students’ imaginations, discouraging experimentation and discovery." "Science is an incredibly important subject that many students never fully grasp. Physics, Chemistry and Biology is something for the nerds, geeks and highly intelligent children at school and not for us or our children. Science can be a subject that many of us see as something for other people.
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