http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-08-13/scientists-hope-disease-busting-video-game-will-go-viral/

i think this is a brilliant idea and should be more games of the kind! what do you think?

Educational games are great. However, what I noticed from some educational games is that they are too realistic to call it a game. They wanted to make them as close to real life as possible, forgetting to insert game elements, thus creating a simulation not a game.

I hope they are doing it right.

Wait a moment, are they planning to use people playing a free facebook game as pattern matchers rather than a compute cluster? Seriously?

Wait a moment, are they planning to use people playing a free facebook game as pattern matchers rather than a compute cluster? Seriously?

That is part of the experiment. Can a suitably large mass of human minds produce results more reliably than a more hard wired computer simulation?

I've played it for a bit. Kind of an interesting little time waster.

Defiantly a time waster, not much of a game.

You attempt to make the best possible score on each line by moving and deleting colors. Some one ( who is better at algorithms than I am ) could easily program a macro to "play" much faster than a human could.

Why work at all now that we can play to solve scientific problems?

we are not solving them we are helping to solve and for our own good , in this particular one to save main oxygen makers .

we are not solving them we are helping to solve and for our own good , in this particular one to save main oxygen makers .

Theatrically, grass produces more oxygen per acre, than trees do