As they design students will have to wrestle with engineering challenges. Design a machine that will fling your friends the farthest. Either turn your learners loose and let them follow their own interests, or give them a challenge to help them get started! Build a vehicle that can transport three or more crates from your shop to the warehouse. This is a fantastic, digital maker space! This would be a welcome addition to classrooms and media centers looking for an alternative digital space to encourage students’ creativity. These are just a few examples among many out there on YouTube.Ĭreative tinkering and trial-and-error exploration are hallmarks of the game play and those are just a couple of the reasons Scrap Mechanic has huge implications for learning. Maybe you want to build a catapult to launch your friends across the world or build a transforming tree house. With engines, wheels, thrusters, and bearings, players can create everything from gas-powered cars to rocket-powered flying saucers, or if you’re so inclined, a rocket-powered flying saucer car. There’s gravity and other forces at work. Unlike other sandbox games, physics plays a big role in Scrap Mechanic.
Building structures is relatively familiar territory, but the real fun is in machine building. The main idea of the experience, so far, is building structures and machines. There’s a great deal of learning potential, here, too. The controls are intuitive and there’s a super-helpful in-game player guide reminiscent of LEGO building manuals to help you get started with your first creations. The game is still in an early release stage (beta), but it already seems very polished with nice graphics and ambient sounds. So, I did the responsible thing… I bought it myself! Check out the game trailer below:Īfter just a few moment of game play, I’m hooked and my kids are begging to play. Then, one of our district media coordinators contacted me saying that her son wanted to buy it and wondering if I knew anything about it. First, I’m seeing the amazing Adam Clark (aka WizardKeen) posting Let’s Play videos with the game. Once again, my radar is getting pinged from different sources about a new game called Scrap Mechanic. Well, history repeats itself, though this time with considerably less resistance on my part.
The game was Minecraft and it had huge implications for learning. I ignored it as long as I could, but finally caved and tried the game. Years ago, a growing buzz in my social feed and from students kept pushing me to explore a retro-looking sandbox building game.
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