{"id":324,"date":"2013-01-10T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=324"},"modified":"2013-01-10T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T10:10:57","slug":"tools-for-game-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/tools-for-game-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools for game building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magical-project.net\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/games_list.jpg\" width=\"156\" height=\"148\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magical-project.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Making Games in Collaboration for Learning<\/a> (MAGICAL) project, in which we&#8217;re a partner, has just released an updated version of its list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magical-project.net\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/environments2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">game-making environments <\/a>(pdf). It contains information about nearly forty different game-building tools, classified by cost, game-type, and type of access (i.e. online or download).<\/p>\n<p>One thing that struck me is the lack of online tools for game-building. Given the practicalities of gaining access and installing software on most institutional computers, this is a real barrier to game-building in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Making Games in Collaboration for Learning (MAGICAL) project, in which we&#8217;re a partner, has just released an updated version of its list of game-making environments (pdf). It contains information about nearly forty different game-building tools, classified by cost, game-type,&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/tools-for-game-building\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-5e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}