Odyssey - The Next Generation Science Game Windows, Mac

Odyssey is a science puzzle adventure game focused on scientific reasoning and argumentation in astronomy and mechanics from the ancient Greeks to Newton. The game blends the history of science with an immersive journey across the exotic yet dangerous Wretched Islands to rescue Kai, a 13-year old girl, and her family. While solving puzzles to navigate across the islands, you also embark on an intellectual voyage, reconstructing the creative ideas and arguments of some of the world’s greatest scientists and philosophers.

The game is suitable for ages 11+ but, while its fundamentals are in education, Odyssey has been designed to be a strong game in its own right that can be enjoyed by adults and kids alike. To this end, The Young Socratics have enlisted the help of Eric Lindstrom (Tomb Raider: Underworld, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - Legend, Solar Eclipse) on narrative duties, and Jason Miller (Nintendo, LucasArts, Disney, Activision) on game development.

Key features

• An immersive environment for exploration with a mystery-adventure story and science-based puzzles.

• Plenty of scientific models within the game environment for investigation and conducting your own experiments.
  
  
• A journal that reads like a mystery novel, while providing insight into the history of astronomy and mechanics from the ancient Greeks to Newton, and clues for solving the puzzles.

About The Young Socratics

The Young Socratics is an educational programme in mathematics and science geared towards middle-school and high-school students, with an emphasis on problem-solving and on understanding the subjects through a lense of history and philosophy.

Co-founded by Vivek Kaul and Omkar Deshpande, the organisation aims to bring a new approach to education that is integrated into a meaningful body of knowledge for the student, rather than being compartmentalised into unconnected subjects. More information on their approach can be found at theyoungsocratics.com.

Vivek Kaul has an extensive background in academia and has MS degrees in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering and Mathematics, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to founding The Young Socratics he worked at Facebook as a data scientist.

Omkar Deshpande spent six years at Stanford University where he gained an MS and PhD in Computer Science, as well as studying Genetics and Cultural Anthropology. Prior to founding The Young Socratics he worked as a principal engineer at WalmartLabs (formerly Kosmix).