We at the Federation of American Scientists (the non-profit group that made this) are working on a way to make it run under WINE but we don't have it quite yet. We hope to have it up by the end of the month. Sorry.
The reality is we made this with a very limited budget and for that reason we have not not yet implemented a mac/*nix version yet. This is primarily a research project to show that students can learn from video games. The goal is to prove to policy makers that technology can be used to improve education. FAS is open to any feedback you can give them about the game or if you can help get it into the classroom.
If you really need a different version consider donating or joining FAS [http://fas.org/member/index.html] so that we can continue development.
I work in this field and actually I am sadly not surprised by this at all. It is a bit of a chicken and an egg problem. Without a solid example of a good educational game it is hard to show educators the benefits of educational gaming. Without by-in from educators it is hard to get funding to build a good game.
Meanwhile the government sees little reason to look at funding R&D in education to look at innovative approaches to teaching this new generation.
However, a lot of people are working on this problem. I work for the Federation of American Scientists http://www.fas.org/programs/ltp/index.html and we have a couple of decent examples of educational games.
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We at the Federation of American Scientists (the non-profit group that made this) are working on a way to make it run under WINE but we don't have it quite yet. We hope to have it up by the end of the month. Sorry.
The reality is we made this with a very limited budget and for that reason we have not not yet implemented a mac/*nix version yet. This is primarily a research project to show that students can learn from video games. The goal is to prove to policy makers that technology can be used to improve education. FAS is open to any feedback you can give them about the game or if you can help get it into the classroom.
If you really need a different version consider donating or joining FAS [http://fas.org/member/index.html] so that we can continue development.
I work in this field and actually I am sadly not surprised by this at all. It is a bit of a chicken and an egg problem. Without a solid example of a good educational game it is hard to show educators the benefits of educational gaming. Without by-in from educators it is hard to get funding to build a good game.
Meanwhile the government sees little reason to look at funding R&D in education to look at innovative approaches to teaching this new generation.
However, a lot of people are working on this problem. I work for the Federation of American Scientists http://www.fas.org/programs/ltp/index.html and we have a couple of decent examples of educational games.
Also you might find this link to the educational games summit (way back in 2006) interesting. http://www.fas.org/programs/ltp/publications/summit/index.html