A Video Game for Designing Robots, with Dan White
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Learning in robotics doesn’t have to take weeks, if you can design, build, and test a robot in hours in a video game. Dan White, CEO of Filament Games, introduces RoboCo, their game meant to teach principles of robotics to players, from the mechanical design all the way to testing in the 3D world. Dan discusses cofounding Filament Games with partners Dan Norton and Alex Stone, what constitutes a good or bad learning game, plans for integrating RoboCo into educational curricula, and more.
Related Links
- Filament Games: Learning games company.
- RoboCo: Robotics video game from Filament Games.
- Meaningful Gaming in Education: Video of presentation by Ashley Brandin at PAX gaming conference.
- iCivics: Video game for teaching civics.
- Roblox: Platform for creating games.
- Besiege: Video game involving the creation of siege engines.
- Space Engineers: Video game involving creating structures in space.
- Minecraft Edu: Educational version of the video game Minecraft.
- ‘RoboCo’ Looks to Fuel Interest in STEM by Letting You Build Useful (and Crappy) Robots: Article from RoadtoVR.
- FIRST Robotics: Educational robotics organization and competition.
- Steam Workshop: Mod-sharing community for Steam games.
- Civilization: Video game series involving building civilizations through history.
- Micro: Book by Michael Creighton and Richard Preston.
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