Exographer

Exographer is a physics-based platform with a difference—

it's made by an actual particle physicist.

Social-Distancing Games

Other Social Distancing games:

1. Online Cards against Humanity - https://pyx-1.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp
2. Online Codenames - horsepaste.com (yes its a weird URL, but a true representation of the board game)
3. Online Pictionary - skribbl.io
4. Online Secret Hitler - secrethitler.io

Jackbox Game

I recommend the multi-player game Jackbox as a distraction and as a morale builder:

https://jackboxgames.com/

What ends up happening is that one person runs the program on their computer, and when you play it gives you a 4 letter code that other people can then go to jackbox.tv and enter the code and play on their phones

That's the game pack,

There's plenty of videos online that will show the different games, including one called "fibbage"

These are all word type games. In fibbage, they give you a sentence, like "in 2016, Australia banned the import of ______" and everyone puts in their best lie for what that blank could be.

Next everyone chooses from the given answers, but one of them is given by the game and is a truthful response - you're trying to trick the other players into guessing the fake answer you gave.

Other good game packs are:
Trivia Murder Party,

Quiplash,
Guesspionage

Reusing Game Boy Classic

Recycle your old Game Boy Classic by turning it into a drone remote control

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/game-boy-classic-drone-remote/#ixzz4IBWCrsAe

From BBC: Pokemon Go

 
BBC: And now, to Northern Ireland...

Pokemon Go: Man jumps into traffic playing smartphone game;  Police warn Pokemon game 'not worth your life' as player jumps in front of traffic
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36854134

The Game of US Federal Budget

From the Brooking Institution:



"Why we made a computer game about the federal budget"
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2016/04/26-why-we-made-a-computer-game-about-the-federal-budget-wessel

NetLogo

NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by tens of thousands of students, teachers and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You can download it free of charge.   Find it @ https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ 


The book "An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, Social, and Engineered Complex Systems with NetLogo" provides an introduction to one of the primary methodologies for research in this new field of knowledge and uses NetLogo in its exercises.

Underwater Bowling Game

An addictive game:

http://ak.imgag.com/imgag/product/full/ap/3040935/graphic1.swf

Doom on the Moon

A 3-D Immersive NASA Exploration Game

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/games/moonbasealpha/index.html

More on Theoretical History

We read, in the July 2, 2010 issue of the Wall Street Journal:

"The reason Axis & Allies and other such games have such lasting resonance is that they teach a subject which is no longer fashionable: the mechanics of military history. Playing as Japan in Axis & Allies, for instance, you see that, as a tactical matter, you must attack Hawaii as soon as possible. Play as Russia and you can conduct What-If? experiments with variations on Stalin's strategic retreat."

But note that this is still a far cry from Theoretical History for the focus is narrow in subject matter and domain. Moreover, one major shortcoming of these games is that they do not model the human action at the individual level - there are no autonomous software agents through the actions of whom what we call history arises.

But, it is a start.

Fold It Portal

This is a portal site for games, including computer games, cross-word puzzles and so on. Find it @ www.foldit.com

FoldIt

FoldIt is an online game in which players shake, wiggle, and pull apart different parts of a protein molecule in order to discover more energy favorable positions. Find it @ http://www.fold.it/portal

Matzohball Game

http://www.jewishtvnetwork.com/matzohball/

Time Engineers

Time Engineers is a game that is intended to promote children's interest in engineering fields. Find it @ www.software-kids.com/html/time-engineers.html

Brain Strainer Game

http://www.globalspec.com/brainstrainer/?id=345&uid=%2D1712143477&uh=d4cc27&campid=661&md=090228&mh=e358d7&mailingid=1&type=%2D2

The Adventures of IP Man

The Adventures of IP Man is the new comic strip put out by Broadvox, a VoIP company. Designed, of course, to promote the benefits of Voice over Internet Protocol Technology, the strip is cutely drawn, but superficial & unimaginative.

Could "The Adventures of VAR Man" be that far behind?

Pandora

http://openpandora.org/

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/pandora-the-preorders-are-open-today-160374.html

Comic Life

This is a software tool for making comics. It is not free but is reasonably priced. Find it @ http://plasq.com/products/

The Creation Simulation

More on the Spores game from the Seed Magazine:
http://seedmagazine.com/news/2008/09/the_creation_simulation.php

3 Free Science Games

http://www.fold.it/ This is a free online game where players compete for the most stable protein folding solution.

www.fas.org/immuneattack is an educational game in which the players guide a nano-robot (nanobot) through blood vessels and human tissue of a person with a malfunctioning immune system.

http://www.stellaralchemy.com/lee/virtual_creatures.html is a 3D virtual creature evolution game created by Lee Graham.