Seriously playing with Science: a new education and communication tool.
Using games in science communication and teaching is a new and still developing methodology, but this different approach promises to be effective: science could be scary, hard, abstruse, but, if it is embedded in an entertaining game, it can turn easier to digest, it could be also fun! One of the tasks of our research group is to increase science knowledge and awarness among all people. We are now working along this new line of research, building from scratch a game which reproduces the complexity and intellectual challenge of planning a manned mission to Mars.