Event+Simulations

These are examples of sites which contain games and interactive experiences designed to simulate an event or experience

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 * Games for Change **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser (some games), Download (varies by game) ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and run most games ||
 * Logged-in User: || Can rate and comment on games ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || Certain games cost money to be able to play ||
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of games, easy to navigate library, specific game
 * Comparison: || Wide variety of games, easy to navigate library, specific game
 * Description: || Acts as a hub to games that also serve as real world learning
 * Uses: || User can find and organize any number of games that relate to

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 * Spent **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug-in required ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and play the game ||
 * Logged-in User: || N/A ||
 * Email Use: || N/A ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Visually simple compared to similar simulators, but provides
 * Comparison: || Visually simple compared to similar simulators, but provides
 * Description: || A simulator that recreates the difficulties and stress of living in
 * Uses: || Can be used to facilitate discussion about our nation's

objectives || Nepalese village in hopes of acquiring a goat. || priorities and trials of living in a third world country. ||
 * Heifer Village **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || in browser, shockwave plug-in required ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and play game ||
 * Logged-in User: || N/A ||
 * Email Use: || N/A ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || 3D rendered village, easy to control, sometimes confusing
 * Comparison: || 3D rendered village, easy to control, sometimes confusing
 * Description: || User seeks to accomplish a number of every day tasks in a
 * Uses: || Students could use game as a resource to write a paper on the

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 * Mission U.S. **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash required or Download (Windows or Mac) ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and play the demo missions ||
 * Logged-in User: || Download the game, create save files, play full version ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Similar controls to point and click adventure games, easy to
 * Comparison: || Similar controls to point and click adventure games, easy to
 * Description: || User lives the life of a citizen within an important time period
 * Uses: || Students could use game as a resource to write a paper on the

determines whether they will be successful || consequences of minor decisions, what it takes to make a pyramid || challenging || and clicks and drags to pull, turn and otherwise manipulate the protein until it has the fewest errors possible. The data is sent to a server which compiles the best solutions for how certain proteins fold. || hydrophobic and hydrophilic chains, discuss how many people donating a small amount of time can make a difference. ||
 * Pyramid Builder **
 * Website: || [] ||
 * Distribution: || In browser, flash plug-in required ||
 * Anonymous User: || View and play in site ||
 * Logged-in User: || N/A ||
 * Email Use: || N/A ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Easy to use, runs smoothly, limited flexibility beyond specific task ||
 * Description: || Users make decisions about how they want to build their pyramid and the program
 * Description: || Users make decisions about how they want to build their pyramid and the program
 * Uses: || Users can discuss the geographic limitations of creating buildings, the major
 * Fold it **
 * Website: || [|http://fold.it] ||
 * Distribution: || Download (Windows XP, Mac 10.4, Linux) ||
 * Anonymous User: || Download and run Fold it in offline mode ||
 * Logged-in User: || Upload high scores to Fold it, download additional puzzles ||
 * Email Use: || Required for log-in account creation ||
 * Paid Option: || N/A ||
 * Comparison: || Easy to learn, visually clean, later puzzles become very
 * Comparison: || Easy to learn, visually clean, later puzzles become very
 * Description: || User is given protein chains which have have errors within them
 * Uses: || Users could learn about properties of biochemistry, such as