Welcome to our Game Listing.

We have here a listing of several popular opensource and free use educational games. You will eventually be able to play some of these here or download them free of charge at their listed source. This site will have minimal amount of advertising material to cover maintenance and other costs.

We also have a number of games and listings for games that come from educational institutions. These usually cannot be downloaded, but you are free to play them at their source.

We openly welcome you to share any educational material you think should be included on the site especially, in line with our purpose, any fun open source, share ware or free use games you know of. If you have any suggestion for improvement to this site please post it on our Contribute page forum or contact us directly.

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Games List

 Teachers' Tools

 

iTALC              http://italc.sourceforge.net/

"iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows XP, Vista and 7 and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

In contrast to widely used commercial equivalent software, iTALC is free! This means you do not have to pay for expensive licenses or things like that. Furthermore the source-code is freely available and you're free in changing the software to fit your needs as long as you respect the terms of iTALC's license (GPL). Freedom in two ways!"

-not exactly sure if I would call it a game, but it is freely available and helps educators



Kids' Educational Games

 

 

 

Tux4Kids project:

Tux, of Math Command

TuxPaint

TuxTyping

-all can be found at http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/index.php


GCompris                   http://gcompris.net/-en-

-games range from computer discovery to algebra, geography,

memory building, reading, and science


Kabongo.com            https://www.kabongo.com/

-offers a great variety of reading games for ages 4-7


Childsplay                  http://www.schoolsplay.org/

-for use in pre-schools and kindergartens to teach kids a "little math, letters of the alphabeth, spelling, eye-hand coordination etc."  (runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh)


 
  

Study Games for High School and College Students 

General

Hippocampus, a programme created by the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education, is can be a very useful resource for high school students and college freshman. They have everything from AP US History to Psychology and information about landfills and cell cycles.

Very useful study tool with a wide variety of subjects covered.

Games listed to the right can be found at:

http://www.hippocampus.org/

 

  

Chemistry

           Kalzium                      http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/

           Useful free-use chemistry game used by some schools and teachers to help students visualize and manipulate

           chemical structures

            -in English, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian and Russian

 



Foreign Language

 Mandarin






 Japanese

(Kanji practice)



Language Flashcards


           ZWDisplay        http://zwdisplay.sourceforge.net/

"ZWDisplay is a desktop program to assist learners of Mandarin to understand and learn to read Chinese text. When the user enters Chinese-language text, ZWDisplay will display the text with the pronunciation of each word (in Pinyin) and an English translation."

"The name ZWDisplay is short for zhongwen [Chinese writing] display."

(free and open source software)



    zkanji                   http://zkanji.sourceforge.net/

"zkanji is a free and open-source study tool and dictionary of the Japanese language. It has several useful features for beginners and advanced students alike. Dictionary, example sentences, kanji search and information with animated stroke order diagrams, vocabulary list printing, study functions and much more."





            jVLT                       http://jvlt.sourceforge.net/index.html

"jVLT is a vocabulary learning tool. Examples containing one or many of the vocabulary words may be specified. jVLT also can perform quizzes using a flash card system which is similar to the selective learning system proposed by German psychologist Sebastian Leitner. During a quiz, jVLT shows the examples of each word, letting you better memorize its usage."

 


 Flashcards


        FlashQard                 http://flashqard-project.org/


"FlashQard is an educational software to improve your learning process. It is designed to help you learn not only a new language but anything that can be learnt! 
"This aim is achieved by using the widely used method, called Leitner System, and the idea of "different card types for different purposes". 
"Leitner System (proposed by Sebastian Leitner in the 1970s) is one the most efficient methods for learning. Which allows you to focus on the most difficult flashcards and not waste your time on what you have already learnt.

"FlashQard is developed to combine the immense power of computers and the power of Leitner System."

 

Other Games 

Games Related to World Hunger


FoodForce2                http://www.foodforce2.com/

-a game that gives information about world hunger

PlayPower.org           http://playpower.org/

-currently a game called "Malaria: A Call to Action is Available"

FreeRice                     http://freerice.com/

-A great game to develop English vocabulary while rice is donated to poor

Flight Simulation Game




Space

Celestia            http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html


Orbiter              http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/index.html





Flight

Flightgear         http://www.flightgear.org/

"FlightGear Flight Simulator (often shortened to FlightGear or FGFS) is a free, open-source multi-platform flight simulator developed by the FlightGear project since 1997." -Wikipedia


 

  


City Simulation/Construction




Lincity                http://sourceforge.net/projects/lincity/

"LinCity-NG is a city simulation game. It is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity game. In the game, you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships."




Energyville       http://www.energyville.com/groups/

-is an interesting multiplayer city simulation game produced by Chevron that enables users to regulate power usage and toy with different power sources





Toy Blocks/Construction

Leocad              http://leocad.org/trac

"LeoCAD is a CAD program that can be used to create virtual LEGO models. It has an easy to use interface and currently features over 3000 different types of pieces created by the  LDraw community."

 

Games List

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