Yearly Archives: 2021

Who Are You?

Please, tell me about yourself! I need the inspiration. We all could use it! Why do you read the Game Design and Biochemistry blog here at Molecular Jig Games? Are you a game player? Are you a biologist or scientist of some kind? Are you a teacher? What things interest you about biology,

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Hanging in there…

I am applying for an academic grant to study Immune Defense, to figure out what it teaches and how it affects the attitude of our players towards cell biology. We’d like to optimize Immune Defense for the creation of confidence in our players. We want our players to learn how to use receptors,

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Fall

Feels like the end of the year, like “it’s all over now.” Summer is gone. I think the whole finality feeling is because I’m burnt out. Me and everyone else. Winter in central Pennsylvania is a wet, dreary, cold, long long long time.

I go to the university building almost daily now,

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NanoCrasherVR Music and Art

Protein Art  We have recruited an expert structural biologist to our project!  Martina Maritan, Ph.D. is a structural biologist, which means she studied the shape of proteins, and in particular, she used X-Rays the same way Rosalind Franklin did.  Now she is a postdoc in the Molecular Graphics Lab,

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Iterative Game Development for Novel Science Games

This is my guide for developing novel game mechanics in collaborations with scientists, doctors, teachers, and any other kind of non-typical video game development team members. In 2010, I was the scientist learning game design and product management on the fly.  Immune Defense was the result.

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Hey! We are on Patreon! We are building NanoCrasherVR!

It is finally official.  I have a little team, we are working on the little game called NanoCrasherVR, and we are so committed that we started the Patreon page!  I will be blogging more than twice each month and about our game dev progress, and once or twice a month and about game design/proteins/science communication…

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The Atari Game Adventure Feels like Biochemistry to Me

I recently gave an interview where I expressed myself clearly (and the interviewer did a great job editing me to sound more clear!)   Here is the interview, by Chris Styles, for SciComm Stories.   http://scicommstories.com/020-playful-discovery-with-melanie-stegman/

So this week, in lieu of a proper blog post from me,

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Game Design Realities

I’m designing a game about digestion. I have a pad of paper with details like how much glucose is in a gummi bear, how fast the glucose gets absorbed into the blood stream, where the player can place glucose receptors and how much they should cost… But I also have a pad of paper with blogging topics,

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the Future is here!

Well, the future I mentioned in my last post is here, anyway. I’ve been working on a new game, a new biochemistry game and it is a tower defense game about nutrition. This is the third biochemistry game I’ve started making in my nights and weekends, and well, I don’t want it to become just another prototype.

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