{"id":96087,"date":"2019-07-03T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/346053"},"modified":"2019-07-03T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T23:34:00","slug":"zachtronics-games-are-now-free-for-public-schools-and-educational-nonprofits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/03\/zachtronics-games-are-now-free-for-public-schools-and-educational-nonprofits\/","title":{"rendered":"Zachtronics games are now free for public schools and educational nonprofits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team at Zachtronics have launched a new initiative that allows public schools and &#8220;school-like&#8221; nonprofits to request free licenses for Zachtronics games that will be used for teaching purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zachtronics.com\/zachademics\/\">Zachademics<\/a>, this new program is a nice gesture that comes with some important caveats. Organizations who request game licenses are expected to explain how they&#8217;re going to be used and where they&#8217;ll be installed, and home schools and private\/for-profit schools are not eligible (though the latter can request discounts).<\/p>\n<p>Zachtronics also acknowledges that its games (including <em>Opus Magnum<\/em>, <em>TIS-100<\/em>, and<em>Exapunks<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>[pictured]) are not designed as teaching tools, and advises educators to spend some time playing them before introducing them to young minds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more details on which Zachtronics games are eligible and how to apply, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zachtronics.com\/zachademics\/\">Zachademics&nbsp;website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team at Zachtronics have launched a new initiative that allows public schools and &#8220;school-like&#8221; nonprofits to request free licenses for Zachtronics games that will be used for teaching purposes. Dubbed Zachademics, this new program is a nice gesture that comes with some important caveats. Organizations who request game licenses are expected to explain how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}