Friday, February 1, 2013

Electron-ic Gaming: Sokobond Trailer Has Chemistry | Rock, Paper ...

By John Walker on January 31st, 2013 at 3:00 pm.

Chemistry is basically a puzzle game, right? A puzzle game I was so utterly terrible at that I got an N for my A Level in the dastardly subject. Fortunately, Alan Hazelden and Harry Lee?s forthcoming Sokobond is a chemistry puzzle that I can at least start playing without hideous memories sending me trembling into a corner.

The trailer for the game is deliberately ambiguous. See:

That?s because a part of the game ? of which I?ve had a quick go ? is about discovering the aims. Aims you?ll have seen are based around the bonding of chemicals. One of the few elements of chemistry I could get my head around, unlike how I?m supposed to know the reagents of changing benzene molecules, or mole-based calculations. (For one chemistry A level paper, after realising I couldn?t answer a single question, I plotted a graph on my graphic calculator that rendered a train on the screen, with smoke coming out of the chimney at the end. This was not marked.) There are elements of Sokoban, mixed up with SCIENCE, creating what I think would make just about the best imaginable tool for teaching year 8/9 chemistry students the complexities of covalent bonding.

It?s in the Greenlight dungeon at the moment, and success there will likely determine a release date.

Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/31/electron-ic-gaming-sokobond-trailer-has-chemistry/

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