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Awesome Educational Games

A curated list of awesome educational games to learn editors, languages, programming, etc.

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Educational games are designed to teach people about certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play - Wikipedia

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Art & Design

Canon Explains Exposure

Learn how to give your photographs just the right amount of light.

Can't Unsee

A game where your attention to details earns you a lot of coins.

Font Memory Game

Recognizing different styles of fonts is one of the most challenging parts of typography.

Method of Action

A collection of games that teach you design principles.

Pixactly

A pixels test to quiz your knowledge.

The Boolean Game

Learn how to use boolean operations in Sketch, Figma, and other vector editors.

  • The Bézier Game - Bézier Curves
    • Color - Color
    • Shape Type - Letter Shaping
    • Kern Type - Kerning

Articles

Educational Video Games Can Boost Motivation to Learn

An article by New York University.

Fact or Fiction?: Video Games Are the Future of Education

An article by Scientific American.

Five Reasons to Use Games in the Classroom

An article by Education World.

CSS

CSS Diner

It's a little game to help you learn CSS selectors.

CSS Grid Garden

A game for learning CSS grid layout.

Flexbox Defense

Unlike other tower defense games, you must position your towers using CSS!

Flexbox Froggy

A game for learning CSS flexbox.

Flexbox with Webflow

Learn and master flexbox in 28 interactive levels—without writing code.

Editors

Open Vim

Interactive Vim tutorial.

Vim Adventures

Learning Vim while playing a game.

Vim Genius

Increase your speed and improve your muscle memory with Vim Genius.

Languages

Drops

Learn useful words and phrases in a languge of your choosing, with fun gameplay.

Duolingo

Learn Spanish, French and other languages for free.

Math & Computer Science

Alligator Eggs!

A pen-and-paper game for children that teaches lambda calculus.

CS Unplugged

A collection of classroom activities that teach computer science concepts without using computers.

Finitris

See what goes into running a regular expression.

Guess The Correlation

Try to guess how correlated the two variables in a scatter plot are.

Music

Learning Music

Explore the fundamentals of music via Ableton's interactive website.

Learning Synths

Learn the basics of using synthesizers (or synths).

Pianu

Learn how to play the piano in-browser.

Programming

BOX-256

Program a fictional CPU with assembly to output graphics.

Bashcrawl

Learn Linux commands by playing a simple text adventure .

Clips the Game

A demanding logic game based on the clips rule engine.

Code Avengers

Learn to build websites, apps and games in a fun and effective way.

Code.org

Every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science.

Codecademy

Learn to code interactively, for free.

CodeCombat

The most engaging coding game for learning programming.

CodinGame

A challenge-based training platform where you can play with the hottest programming topics.

Cube Composer

A puzzle game inspired by functional programming.

Deadlock Empire

Solve puzzles with concurrency.

Free Code Camp

An open source community that helps you learn to code.

Learn Git Branching

Interactive Git tutorial that emphasizes branching.

Mimo

Learn how to become a developer on mobile.

Programming Games Wiki

A long-standing catalogue of programming games through the years.

RegexOne

Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises.

ReturnTrue

A game were you learn about booleans, return true to win.

Screeps

The world's first MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers.

SQL Murder Mystery

Solve a crime while practicing database skills.

Swift Playgrounds

Learn to code on your iPad in a seriously fun way.

Untrusted

Learn while playing a JavaScript adventure game.

WarriorJS

Using JavaScript, program a warrior to climb a tall tower, fight monsters and rescue captives.

Web Audio School

Interactive WebAudio tutorials.

XSS game

A game about tricking people into running code in their browsers.

  • Code School - Learn to code in the comfort of your browser.