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MalariaSpot - a game that helps diagnose malaria
Millions of people play video games while thousands of people die from diseases that have not been diagnosed. The MalariaSpot game combines both exciting entertainment and real help in identifying malaria.
How crowdfunding helped raise funds to overthrow mutants and save Russia
To create and launch the board game “Overthrow of the Mutants: Battle for Russia,” the project’s authors collected more than 700 thousand rubles through crowdfunding. The creator of the game, Tim Kirby, shared his experience of organizing a fundraising campaign via the Internet.
Gamification in education. Mobile game for young physicists
A resistor is the most common electronic component; it resists the flow of current in electronic circuits. Resistors can have values from a fraction of an ohm to several million ohms - it all depends on the colored stripes that are present on each resistor and have their own unique...
Quest game: “Pump up your inner volunteer”
The website wos.ru, an information resource that “25-year-olds do for 25-year-olds,” has published a quest game “Pump Up Your Inner Volunteer,” in which players are invited to play the role of a volunteer facing a variety of tasks. The creators themselves describe the game as follows: With the help of the game you can play the role of a volunteer...