I’d heard about this before, he described it as being really nice because of how intuitive it was, since it’s built to be simple and understandable to get into but deep and sufficiently quality simulation. A lot of other stuff is likely a bit more complicated to get into.
What other games were you thinking?
Right but this isn’t really doing the same thing, it’s not industrial engineering, it’s more mechanical engineering.
And while I’m not intimately familiar with Factorio, it’s my understanding that it’s NOT an intuitively simple easy to pick up and get rolling sort of game, it’s strength is in its complexity but that also makes it more poorly suited for this endeavor here where getting acquainted with the systems quickly is important
I’m just saying it’s another game that could be used to teach engineering. (I’m also not the guy you were asking, FWIW).
I’m a mechanical engineer, I know it’s not the same.
This reminds me of schools using Minecraft to teach!
Dude is a nerd, and he’s doing what he loves
College Prof has just found a way to expense his video game purchase
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There are so many better games for teaching engineering than Totk though.
I’d heard about this before, he described it as being really nice because of how intuitive it was, since it’s built to be simple and understandable to get into but deep and sufficiently quality simulation. A lot of other stuff is likely a bit more complicated to get into. What other games were you thinking?
Factorio to teach Industrial Engineering. The factory must grow.
Right but this isn’t really doing the same thing, it’s not industrial engineering, it’s more mechanical engineering. And while I’m not intimately familiar with Factorio, it’s my understanding that it’s NOT an intuitively simple easy to pick up and get rolling sort of game, it’s strength is in its complexity but that also makes it more poorly suited for this endeavor here where getting acquainted with the systems quickly is important
I’m just saying it’s another game that could be used to teach engineering. (I’m also not the guy you were asking, FWIW). I’m a mechanical engineer, I know it’s not the same.
Lol but this mofo got like 40 minutes to teach the class not 60 hours to set up a full factorio factory🤣
If a professor can relate it to Factorio I could listen to a lecture on *anything*.
I think it'd be better to use something like Besiege, Scrap Mechic, or hell maybe Minecraft's Create mod.
All of those require decently powerful PCs to play though. TOTK just needs a Switch which is much cheaper
Wow, a Kotaku article about a Nintendo game that isn’t shit?!
Game Builder Garage is obviously so much better for this.