Invar & Steel Alloys

A link to the game can be found here: http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/physics/steel/index.html

This was fun! First the "chef" would give you a couple items you were going to make -- like "cutlery", "surgical needles" or "toasters". He's give a couple properties the metal in this object needed to have like "corrosion resistance" or "flexible".

Then you'd have to pick a recipe for the metal choices range from stainless steel to armor-plate steel to high strength steel. Each recipe gives you a little information, the name, ingredients, and some applications. Next you have to actually make the alloy -- this is just remember the ingredients from the previous screen. Finally you need to drag the items you're making with the alloy onto the screen.

This was a cute little game.

Good:
Made reading about each material essential -- the information was immediately applied but you had to remember it. Multiple iterations would probably get people to start memorizing the basic metals in alloys and the various uses for each alloy.
Had important dialogue, but also allowed skipping dialogue (if you were faster than the speaker)

Needs work:
I can't think of anything off the top of my head that I would change about this game. Nothing really stuck out as "bad"