Awesome Educational Games

A curated list of awesome educational games to learn editors, languages, programming, etc.

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Educational games are designed to teach people about certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play - Wikipedia

Contents

• Art & Design
• Articles
• CSS
• Editors
• Languages
• Math & Computer Science
• Music
• Programming

Art & Design

• Canon Explains Exposure - Learn how to give your photographs just the right amount of light.
• Can't Unsee - A game where your attention to details earns you a lot of coins.
• Font Memory Game - Recognizing different styles of fonts is one of the most challenging parts of typography.
• Method of Action - A collection of games that teach you design principles.
  • The Bézier Game - Bézier Curves
  • Color - Color
  • Shape Type - Letter Shaping
  • Kern Type - Kerning
• Pixactly - A pixels test to quiz your knowledge.
• The Boolean Game - Learn how to use boolean operations in Sketch, Figma, and other vector editors.

Articles

• Educational Video Games Can Boost Motivation to Learn - An article by New York University.
• Fact or Fiction?: Video Games Are the Future of Education - An article by Scientific American.
• Five Reasons to Use Games in the Classroom - An article by Education World.

CSS

• CSS Diner - It's a little game to help you learn CSS selectors.
• CSS Grid Garden - A game for learning CSS grid layout.
• Flexbox Defense - Unlike other tower defense games, you must position your towers using CSS!
• Flexbox Froggy - A game for learning CSS flexbox.
• Flexbox with Webflow - Learn and master flexbox in 28 interactive levels—without writing code.

Editors

• Open Vim - Interactive Vim tutorial.
• Vim Adventures - Learning Vim while playing a game.
• Vim Genius - Increase your speed and improve your muscle memory with Vim Genius.

Languages

• Drops - Learn useful words and phrases in a languge of your choosing, with fun gameplay.
• Duolingo - Learn Spanish, French and other languages for free.

Math & Computer Science

• Alligator Eggs! - A pen-and-paper game for children that teaches lambda calculus.
• CS Unplugged - A collection of classroom activities that teach computer science concepts without using computers.
• Finitris - See what goes into running a regular expression.
• Guess The Correlation - Try to guess how correlated the two variables in a scatter plot are.

Music

• Learning Music - Explore the fundamentals of music via Ableton's interactive website.
• Learning Synths - Learn the basics of using synthesizers (or synths).
• Pianu - Learn how to play the piano in-browser.

Programming

• BOX-256 - Program a fictional CPU with assembly to output graphics.
• Bashcrawl - Learn Linux commands by playing a simple text adventure .
• Clips the Game - A demanding logic game based on the clips rule engine.
• Code Avengers - Learn to build websites, apps and games in a fun and effective way.
• Code School - Learn to code in the comfort of your browser.
• Code.org - Every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science.
• Codecademy - Learn to code interactively, for free.
• CodeCombat - The most engaging coding game for learning programming.
• CodinGame - A challenge-based training platform where you can play with the hottest programming topics.
• Cube Composer - A puzzle game inspired by functional programming.
• Deadlock Empire - Solve puzzles with concurrency.
• Free Code Camp - An open source community that helps you learn to code.
• Learn Git Branching - Interactive Git tutorial that emphasizes branching.
• Mimo - Learn how to become a developer on mobile.
• Programming Games Wiki - A long-standing catalogue of programming games through the years.
• RegexOne - Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises.
• ReturnTrue - A game were you learn about booleans, return true to win.
• Screeps - The world's first MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers.
• SQL Murder Mystery - Solve a crime while practicing database skills.
• Swift Playgrounds - Learn to code on your iPad in a seriously fun way.
• Untrusted - Learn while playing a JavaScript adventure game.
• WarriorJS - Using JavaScript, program a warrior to climb a tall tower, fight monsters and rescue captives.
• Web Audio School - Interactive WebAudio tutorials.
• XSS game - A game about tricking people into running code in their browsers.