A Kickstarter project called Brainworth, is an online educational video game that will focus teaching the skills required to make web-games in HTML5. The Brainworth team claim the finished product will teach the equivalent of what a 13 week university course would, and will equip you to confidently build the equivalent quality of a great indie game.
“We’ve made online education into a video game, so you can get addicted to learning.” They say anyone from beginners can learn for the first time to those who are already familiar with web programming can use Brainworth and expect at least 80% of new content they’ve never explored making games with HTML 5.
The Brainworth Kickstarter project recently started and has made good progress so far. “We want to make the best quality education available. One on one education is so much better than classroom based learning, but we don't have 7 billion people to tutor the other 7 billion on the planet. We turned to the best one on one experience available – video games – and we're using them to make education much more efficient and enjoyable.”
Brainworth will feature interactive dialogue with scripted narrative characters that will communicate and help instruct the user for each lesson, creating a more immersive video game, than a typical educational game. There are currently a number of tech demos available on their Kickstarter page to sample. The Kickstarter project will end on October 20.
Check out Brainworth at their Kickstarter page at: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1211458364/brainworth-play-games-that-teach-you-to-make-games
*Writer’s opinion – I think this is a great idea, turning educational learning into a video game. It’s in early phase right now but looks promising. Interactivity is the finest way of learning in my opinion. I’m personally learning web design myself and this Brainworth program would be great to not only learn more, but to create an indie game? Sounds awesome to me! What do you think?
