yrgoAwesome Educational Games 
A curated list of awesome educational games to learn editors, languages, programming, etc.
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Educational games are designed to teach people about certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play - Wikipedia
Contents
Art & Design
- Canon Explains Exposure - Learn how to give your photographs just the right amount of light.
- Font Memory Game - Recognizing different styles of fonts is one of the most challenging parts of typography.
- Method of Action - A collection of games that teach you design principles.
- The Bézier Game - Bézier Curves
- Color - Color
- Shape Type - Letter Shaping
- Kern Type - Kerning
- Pixactly - A pixels test to quiz your knowledge.
Articles
- Educational Video Games Can Boost Motivation to Learn - An article by New York University.
- Fact or Fiction?: Video Games Are the Future of Education - An article by Scientific American.
- Five Reasons to Use Games in the Classroom - An article by Education World.
CSS
- CSS Diner - It's a little game to help you learn CSS selectors.
- CSS Grid Garden - A game for learning CSS grid layout.
- Flexbox Defense - Unlike other tower defense games, you must position your towers using CSS!
- Flexbox Froggy - A game for learning CSS flexbox.
- Flexbox with Webflow - Learn and master flexbox in 28 interactive levels—without writing code.
Editors
- Open Vim - Interactive Vim tutorial.
- Vim Adventures - Learning Vim while playing a game.
- Vim Genius - Increase your speed and improve your muscle memory with Vim Genius.
Languages
- Duolingo - Learn Spanish, French and other languages for free.
Math & Computer Science
- Alligator Eggs! - A pen-and-paper game for children that teaches lambda calculus.
- CS Unplugged - A collection of classroom activities that teach computer science concepts without using computers.
- Finitris - See what goes into running a regular expression.
- Guess The Correlation - Try to guess how correlated the two variables in a scatter plot are.
Music
- Learning Music - Explore the fundamentals of music via Ableton's interactive website.
- Pianu - Learn how to play the piano in-browser.
Programming
- BOX-256 - Program a fictional CPU with assembly to output graphics.
- Clips the Game - A demanding logic game based on the clips rule engine.
- Code Avengers - Learn to build websites, apps and games in a fun and effective way.
- Code School - Learn to code in the comfort of your browser.
- Code.org - Every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science.
- Codecademy - Learn to code interactively, for free.
- CodeCombat - The most engaging coding game for learning programming.
- CodinGame - A challenge-based training platform where you can play with the hottest programming topics.
- Cube Composer - A puzzle game inspired by functional programming.
- Deadlock Empire - Solve puzzles with concurrency.
- Free Code Camp - An open source community that helps you learn to code.
- Learn Git Branching - Interactive Git tutorial that emphasizes branching.
- Mimo - Learn how to become a developer on mobile.
- Programming Games Wiki - A long-standing catalogue of programming games through the years.
- RegexOne - Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises.
- ReturnTrue - A game were you learn about booleans, return true to win.
- Screeps - The world's first MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers.
- Swift Playgrounds - Learn to code on your iPad in a seriously fun way.
- Untrusted - Learn while playing a JavaScript adventure game.
- WarriorJS - Using JavaScript, program a warrior to climb a tall tower, fight monsters and rescue captives.
- Web Audio School - Interactive WebAudio tutorials.
- XSS game - A game about tricking people into running code in their browsers.
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