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I'm not so sure about the "literally doesn't exist" part, schools have been buying educational video games for decades.

25 years ago I played educational games that look conceptually identical to the kind on supermathworld and mathbreakers. I built space stations, launched rockets, battled monsters, and even learned geography and critical reasoning skills to catch the elusive Carmen Sandiego.

Graphics and gaming capabilities were a bit different on the Apple IIe though :)

A friend of mine organizes a conference on educational games which sounds up your alley, check out: http://intentionalplaysummit.com/




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