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A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology

Posted by timothy on from the next-up-should-be-history dept.

kilrathu writes "Longtime proponents of using video games as sources of learning, the Federation of American Scientists put its money where its mouth is. FAS released Immune Attack, an educational video game designed to teach immunology to AP level high school students and combines the most current research on teaching methodologies with a 3D first-person shooter game. 'The key to the game was making sure it was fun while also covering accurate and complex immunology topics,' said Dr. Michelle Lucey-Roper, director of the FAS Learning Technologies Program. The game is free, although not open source, and can be downloaded here. Sorry, no Mac version yet."

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  1. Way to go by Daimanta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Posting a link to a 500 MB file. That won't be a problem ;)

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  2. Insert standard replies here... by gbulmash · · Score: 5, Funny

    The game is free, although not open source... Sorry, no Mac version yet.

    • Obligatory comment about how the PC needs an immunology lesson much more than the Mac does.
    • In Soviet Russia, your PC immunizes you.
    • 1) Create immunology game, 2) make it PC only, 3)???, 4) Profit
    • I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
    • If they would only open source it, we could usher in a new Eden.
    • Immunology, bah... Just more FUD from the medical industry.
    • They had this on the Amiga 20 years ago.
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  3. So will it have... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    God Mode if they want to use it in Louisiana?

  4. Screenshot by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...from an early beta.

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  5. Re:Wha? by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn. The one time that I didn't RTFA and I get called on it. Thank you, sir, for bruising my fragile ego!

  6. Well, no duh. by Valdrax · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only a Windows version, is more accurate.

    How would you create a game about fighting off viruses without an environment that's hospitable to them?

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  7. Re:Imagine a million highschooled controlled nanob by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    and when they accidentally shoot the good ones?

    Accidentally?

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  8. That is a very, very scary picture by patio11 · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Please don't teamkill the brainstem. Its sort of important, at least among those members of the species who have one.
    2) I don't care that you just scored a +10,000 Helper-T bonus, that does not mean you can release dilatory hormones to make the patient's scrotum turn red.
    3) Yes, yes, we understand -- its a breast cancer. You're in her breast. Get over it.

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