Crash Course Games: #15: Educational Games

This video focuses on educational games: Chess, Number Munchers, The Oregon Trail! Technically all games have an educational component because games are defined by their rules and players have to learn those rules to participate. But there is a subset of games designed to teach players skills useful within but also outside game worlds. These kinds of games have actually been around for thousands of years! So today we're going to focus a few educational game successes, talk about how they got there, and what they have done for us in the process. [8:15]