Разработчик: The Young Socratics
Описание
"Imaginative and compelling" -- Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
"An extraordinary step for science education" -- Bryan Brown, Associate Professor of Science Education, Stanford University.
"An innovative historical approach to teaching science" -- Jonathan Osborne, Professor of Science Education, Stanford University
"A wonderful 21st century meld of ideas" -- David Mumford, Fields Medalist, National Medal of Science Winner and Professor Emeritus at Brown and Harvard Universities
Details:
Drawn to one of the remote and uninhabited Wretched islands (in the Caribbean) by the distress call of 13- year old Kai, you find that all across the islands are barricades set up by her family, who are expecting a small group of unscrupulous sailors (pirates) to return to haunt them on the islands. At the same time, the family wants to allow rescuers to reach them. So while they expect the barricades to keep away the pirates at least for some time, they hope that a rescuer would be able to get through, with the help of clues planted by Kai inside fragments of text that the player would find scattered across the islands.
These fragments are pages from her journal that she wrote during her stay on the uninhabited islands, while her archaeologist Dad worked hard to excavate valuable Carib artifacts from the islands. She not only recorded the events that happened in her journal, but also her intellectual journey across 2000 years of astronomy and physics through Socratic dialogues with Dad, and her own observations and experiments guided by those conversations. She and her brother Sid also build a number of physical models as she debates, critiques and argues for her point of view with Dad. All of that is recorded in her journal.
But after a few unpleasant encounters with some nosy sailors, the last of which leaves the family stranded on the islands with their boat and radio smashed, and only a few days of time given to them to turn in all the valuable artifacts (including treasure) that the sailors believe Dad has found, they decide to plant barricades all over the islands to buy some time, since Dad's graduate students are expected to arrive within a month. To leave them clues about how to solve the puzzles, Kai tears up her journal and plants fragments all over the islands, so that the fragment in each place has clues relevant to the puzzle at that place.
The puzzles are arranged in a sequence that mirrors the chronological progression of ideas in astronomy and mechanics. So the player would be learning the history of astronomy and mechanics in a systematic sequence as he/she navigates through the islands.
The first game which is being released in Early Access covers Chapters 1-3 of the adventure.
Chapter 1 covers the origins of science, and the shift from the flat earth of the Pre-socratics to the spherical earth and physics of Aristotle.
Chapter 2 covers the shift from the geocentric universe of Ptolemy to the heliocentric universe of Copernicus and Galileo.
Chapter 3 covers the tussle between Galileo and the followers of Aristotle on free fall motion.
The third chapter ends midway through Galileo's physics and we plan to continue the story in a sequel game, which would cover the following chapters:
Chapter 4 would cover the mathematics of uniformly accelerated motion as developed by Galileo (1D kinematics).
Chapter 5 would cover Galileo's ideas about inertia and the mathematics of projectile motion (2D kinematics) .
Chapter 6 would complete the birth of a new physics with the construction of the three Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation by Newton.
Meant for ages 11+.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: Windows 64 bit
- Processor: Intel Core2Duo or Equivalent AMD
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD4600 and above Integrated Card or Direct X 11 Dedicated Card
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Run on Medium/Low Setting for Integrated Graphics Card like HD4600
Mac
- OS: OS X v10.7 Lion or higher
- Processor: Intel Core2Duo or Equivalent AMD
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD4600 and above Integrated Card or Direct X 11 Dedicated Card
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
An imaginative approach to teaching science and science history to young minds. The lessons are taught through the pages of a young girl's journal (be prepared to read, there are a lot of pages). The puzzles are really just interactive demonstrations that reinforce the concepts taught in the journal. Each lesson brings you one step closer to finding and rescuing the young girl's family.
The graphics are good making the island fun to explore. The game mechanics are easily mastered. There is no save option, but the game autosaves fairly often. I played with no issues on my desktop running Windows 10. I was a little disappointed that this installment ends abruptly mid-story, but in fairness to the developers, they covered a lot of ground in this game. And from their description on the Steam page, it appears that they're planning a sequel to finish the story.
Having gone as far as I can, I look forward to revisiting the Wretched Islands with my grandkids. I highly recommend this for students of all ages.
Myst type puzzle game pure nostalgia love it.
As an astronomy graduate, I can say it's an awesome educational game about physics and astronomy. The history of our understanding of our place in the universe is presented like a detective novel, where you need to use reason and find clues to show that the Earth goes around the Sun. It's the best ways to learn about science.
It took me some extra time to complete the game, because I was looking up things like When did we first measure a stellar parallax, and how precise is our best telescope. And also pictures of Pluto.
The side story from the diary notes is kind of interesting. It does a good job of providing a backdrop to the whole puzzle island.
The music is pretty good.
The game does end in a bit of a cliffhanger, and it doesn't seem like the sequel is coming.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | The Young Socratics |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 76% положительных (167) |