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MoleculAr JIg BLOg

Hello biology game fans,

I am trying to blog more often. Pardon me if this is boring. Honestly, I have so much going on right now, there is no way this could be boring!!

First of all, Strategic Repair Protocol is coming along! We have a first build.

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Posted in Biology, Chemistry, Development Blog, Game Design and Development, Newsletter


NanoCrasherVR

Tonight I am presenting NanoCrasherVR at B’moreVR. This group is really nice to hang out with. Everyone is working on something not just cool but experimental. It seems everyone there is pushing some frontier forward.

The work never stops! The presentations, the coding, the art and design…

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Saturday Night

Working tonight. I work many evenings on my games. Somehow this game development effort has become a long term part of my life.  

This summer I worked daily with Serena Gyi to come up with an awesome and complete design for Immune Defense, the real time strategy game. 

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Footnote to tomorrow’s post

* “Really, are you the first cell biology strategy game?” you ask. We do our best to keep up with other science games. Because we love science and we love games. You can search for “cell biology” games at our lovely site ScienceGameCenter.org. My favorite example of a cell biology game is CellCraft.

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Posted in Development Blog, Game Design and Development, General


Join Melanie for game improv at MAGfest!

Hello everyone, and welcome to 2017! We hope that you had an awesome New Year’s Eve and that you’re ready to take the new year by storm!

As you may or may not know, this coming weekend in DC is MAGFest: the place to be for video games,

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Posted in Game Design and Development, General


A New Intern Approaches!

Hello! My name is Brittany Williams (call me Bri), and I am the new social media intern for Molecular Jig Games and Immune Defense. My goal is to make sure all the people who are interested in and support the work the company is doing get weekly information as the talented devs push forward to the finish line.

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Posted in Development Blog, Game Design and Development, General
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Melanie Spoke at the Marian Koshland Museum of Science

See Melanie’s Talk on the Koshland Museum of Science website.

Get my slides here!

And you can watch me here:

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Posted in Education and Evaluation, Game Design and Development, Newsletter


User Interface notes

Our goal: Get the average 12 through 50 year old to play with molecular cell biology and biochemistry.

Plan: Create a commercially successful game that requires the player to use proteins for their correct functions in order to win.

Problem: What is molecular cell biology and biochemistry?

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What can a 9 year old do to learn real biology?

I met some terrific families at the Marian Koshland Science Museum this weekend. Some kids and parents wanted to know about how to learn about computers and programming.  Others wanted to know more about biology. One parent emailed me later to ask about his 9-year old son who is especially interested in biology.

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Guest Post, Immune Defense Discussion

Elizabeth “Li” Van Nostrand writes about biology, psychology and video games at her blog, AcesoUnderGlass.com.  She is a rare sciencer/gamer person.  She was kind enough to give us some comments on her experience playing Immune Defense.  My replies are in grey.  You can see, she gave me some excellent questions.  

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