Guess Where You Are

Guess Where You Are is just a fun geography game using Street View images to let you explore the world - great fun!

Gamifying Spatial Thinking

Two cool 'geogames' from the RIT: Project Lily Pad and Project EOC - more here: https://www.rit.edu/gccis/geoinfosciencecenter/nsf-reu-outreach.

Up & Down

Let's go up & up using a space elevator and down into the oceans with Neal!

• Space Elevator
• The Deep Sea

City Planning Games

Here are a few city planning games:

• Future City Playgrounds
• Perma Cities
• SimCity

'Seeing' CO2

This is cool: https://extraordinaryfacility.com/co2/

Science Games

This is by no means a comprehensive list or an endorsement, but here are three science-related games:

1. The Climate Trail (https://www.theclimatetrail.com/) has gotten good reviews from fellow educators.
2. The Cranky Uncle Game (https://crankyuncle.com/game/) looks great and I like John Cook's work.
3. Plague Inc: The Cure lets you save the world from a global pandemic.

Aris and Palladio

Two great apps/tools related to mapping and DH:

• ARIS: create location-based games and stories.
• Palladio: visualize data, including location-based data.

Jeopardy

https://jeopardylabs.com/ is awesome - a great way to create a simple and quick way to test facts and specific knowledge.

Geography Games

Seen on Maps Mania: How Well Do You Know the World?

Honestly, Guess Where? is just dumb and not useful in any way: recognizing a capital city based on a Google Maps close-up is just silly and has nothing to do with geographic knowledge or insights. This is in-essence the 21st-century version of memorizing river names and has nothing to do with what we think of as the 'geographic perspective'. At least show the satellite image and scale bar - that way you can begin to use deductive reasoning and practice 'thinking like a geographer'.

Space Station Docking Sim

What an awesome waste of time: ISS Docking Sim

Choices matter!

People of the Pandemic is a 'game' - an online visualization that models the impacts of social distancing of the spread of a global pandemic in your backyard. It is NOT a full and accurate model of COVID-19.

That's a key thing to realize before starting to play and then it becomes a nice tool to visualize that your choices actually do matter!

Geography Treasure Hunts and Quizzes

Not a big fan myself, but many people seem to enjoy these: try Geography Treasure Hunts (by Esri) and Quizzity.

The Climate Trail

The Climate Trail game sounds a little sketchy to me, but have a read at The Climate Trail – making a game of the climate apocalypse for an example of using the game in a college classroom.

The Red Cross/Crescent Climate Centre - Games

Who knew: The Red Cross/Crescent provides a series of excellent games and instructional resources to learn about climate change and its impacts @  https://climatecentre.org/resources-games/games.

See How Well You Can Draw All 50 States

Silly, but fun: Quiz: See How Well You Can Draw All 50 States

Urban Planning and Sim City

This is maybe a little dorky, but pretty cool: An Urban Planner Plays Sim City

Twine 2 and Harlowe 2

Twine 2 and Harlowe 2 are two connected tools to make games in the classroom - broadly connected to the world of Digital Humanities. Looks interesting!

Silly, but fun: Outline Maps

Silly, but fun: Outline Maps - try it!

Between Two Cities

Between Two Cities sounds like a fun and useful game to learn about urban planning.

Game On!

Here is a nice article in Nature (Game on, 20 July 2017) summarizing some of the available games that teach scientific concepts.

• XTRONAUT let's you explore space.
• Go Extinct! is a simple card game about, well, extinctions.
• Keep Cool let's you 'gamble' with climate change. There is also a multi-player online version Keep Cool mobil (sadly only in German at this time).