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Will Wright says educational games focus more on the idea instead of the fun

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Will Wright has spoken with the Chronicle of Higher Education regarding educational games and how valuable these products are to the learning process.

The games creator says that games are better at inspiring students to learn, rather than educating them.

"If you look at what people are doing with this technology it is, or has been, mostly directed at 12-year-old boys," he said during a video interview. "But it has the potential to do a whole lot more."

He says that games are created with more of the "idea" of being educational in mind, rather than making learning fun.

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Via Kotaku.

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