while True: learn() News

Oh hi there!

It's that frightfully pleasant time of the year again, when we dress up, give out candy and inflict massacre upon pumpkins (sorry, pumpkins!).

Luckily, no pumpkins are harmed during Halloween in our games, because it's purely virtual. As you can see, our game page is already chock full of holiday spirit, and the game decorations will follow next week.

However, you want some Halloween mood, like, right now, we advise you to get to our next game, Learning Factory, which already has its spooky event happening:



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/

But don't you think that we've mentioned it for the sake of pitching, as we have exciting news to share! Learning Factory EDU, a special version of the main game tailored for teaching engineering design in middle schools, is now fully available for downloading for free, along with teacher's guides. It is designed by professional curriculum developers and aligned with NGSS standards for teaching STEM. If you know an educator looking to gamify their classroom - don't hesitate to spread the good news!

What about while True: learn() though? Well, it keeps inspiring people for learning new stuff, and we can't be more inspired by that!



If you have your own story to share, you're very welcome to join us on our Discord server!

May this Halloween be horribly awesome for you all! Until next time 🤖🤡💀👻👽

Just taking a quick second this Sunday to send rays of love towards those lucky of you, hanging out at PAX West this weekend. Wish we were there with you, as we were in good ol' 2019:









The past couple of years were a arough ride, but we hope it will be coming back to normal in time! And we sure hope to catch up with you at PAX next year!

Is there a chance you're at PAX West this year? Say hi to everyone on our behalf

Hey everyone!

September 1st is also the first school day in many countries. In a fewer number of countries, it is even known as Knowledge Day! Since while True: learn() is on sale due to 'Back to School' week, we decided to entertain you with another episode of our podcast about educational video games:

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In this episode, we meet Margaret: Senior Curriculum Developer at CodeCombat, an awesome game-based project that teaches coding to school children.

• How to keep children motivated?
  
• How to facilitate lives of school teachers with games?
  
• How to wear hats?
  
• ...and other important questions regarding video games revolutionizing education worldwide!
  

You caan watch more episodes in this YouTube playlist! You can also download Learning Factory EDU, our own educational game, for free on our website!



Are you an educator or parent, interested in game-based learning? Or maybe you know one? Or maybe you know someone who knows a certain someone? In any of these cases, we encourage you to contact us at [email protected] ! We will give you free stuff and an opportunity to change education!

Happy Knowledge Day, everyone! Keep learning

It's always kinda sad when summer comes to an end... But that also means that it's time to go back to school!

No matter what form of education you prefer: be it distance learning or good old fashioned classroom think tank -- we always salute your wish to learn something new! We even have a special deal for you (or maybe your significant others) who feels that curiosity itch:

[h3]while True: learn() is 25% off until September 6, 10am PST[/h3]

But learning means always moving towards new horizons. Throughout this summer (and good part of spring) we were looking out for new exciting ways for video games to empower and change modern education for the better.

We have been collaborating with teachers, we've been meeting with ed-tech experts, hey, we've even launched a YouTube show, in which we discuss the future of education with tech-savvy teachers who care.

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Like in this episode, we're meeting with Paul Darvasi, an educator with 20+ years of experience, who's now doing a visionnaire job, turning mainstream and indie games into school lessons.

And most importantly, we're joined by his 11-years old son Max, with an honest perspective on what is wrong with many of today's "educational games" and how games can and will be transforming classrooms.

With help from all kinds of awesome people from the world of education, we were developing our own attempt to adapt game mechanics to fit into classrooms.

We're talking about Learning Factory EDU, which is meant to improve problem solving skills and introduce engineering practices to middle school children. It comes with teacher guides, and you can get it on our website. Oh, and it's free for everyone to use!



Please share a link to Learning Factory EDU to anyone interested in applying video games in education, as we're looking for teachers and parents, willing to play it along with their learners and share feedback. This will help us turn LF EDU into a razor-sharp tool carving a way towards new knowledge!

Happy new school year!

Tell us about what you've learnt this summer?

Hey there!

We know it's been a while, but we didn't forget about you! Our players are an infinite source of inspiration for us. Seeing so many people interested in puzzles about programming, machine learning and stuff like that - we just can't afford to let you down!

That means, we always think about you! And from this thinking, we find the guts and ideas to move educational games forward. Here's what we've been doing since the last time we've been catching up:

[h2]Learning Factory EDU: STEM-Centered, Free, Co-Developed With Teachers [/h2]

And we've been working on stuff! We've collaborated with Games for Change non-profit organization, to make a special, STEM-centered version of our next game, Learning Factory. And we're making it happen! In fact, you can already download free version of Learning Factory EDU from our website



In short, we've teamed up with teachers who are helping us to develop a lesson plan, that will help understand engineering practices and improve problem-solving skills. It also comes with a podcast, in which you can follow us as we develop Learning Factory EDU, while meeting all kinds of awesome people from the world of education.



[h3]Watch the podcast[/h3]

[h3]Read the story about Learning Factory EDU (5-7 minute read)[/h3]

[h2]Learning Factory: Expansion Inevitable![/h2]
As for the main version of Learning Factory, we're approaching the final step to make Early Edition Stage 1 complete! And that, of course, means lots of new content, new chunk of story and lots of other cool stuff - that is, in addition to what we've already added since February!

About aa year ago Learning Factory used to look like this:


And here's it now:


Add it to your Wishlist before we reach singularity and disappear in the fog of the future!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/

[h2]But wait...[/h2]
Something's really exciting has been brewing in Luden.io for the past half a year and now we're almost ready to show it to you! It's new, it haas machines... who knows, maybe it does even have visual programming in it? Stay tuned, you'll see!