Quantum Game 2
Version: 2.2.17 Web: https://github.com/Quantum-Game/ quantum-game-2
We’re pleased that the outstanding scientific game about lasers and photons from LXF238 hasn’t been buried under the sands of time and has continued to evolve. These days we can play the improved version of Quantum Game, which is now called Quantum Game 2, to the surprise of no one. Many of the game’s basic concepts and elements have remained the same. Essentially, you revisit the word of elementary particles and learn how they behave. The game consists of a series of levels that guide through the principles of photon behaviour. On each level you need to safely guide photons from the emitter to one or several receivers by dragging and dropping beam splitters, reflectors, stones and other objects from the available inventory.
Just as with the older version of the game, here you’re free to skip levels and advance further even if you don’t know how to solve the current puzzle. Quantum Game 2 features improved visuals, better music, clearer symbol explanation and some helpful links to encyclopaedia articles to better understand what’s what in quantum mechanics.
The game is a bold example of how real science should be taught. You can quickly find out what superposition or interference is, and how they work. Quantum Game 2 suggests working examples that illustrate how and why beams split, reflect, unite or get absorbed. Higher levels are challenging and require more time to solve, although there are no time constraints and therefore you can relax while moving objects and listening to the computer-generated background music.
The lower part of the game’s area has three buttons for different game modes: ‘classical laser beam’ that enables you to edit the layout, ‘quantum simulation’ for testing how a single photon finds its path, and ‘running experiment’ where photons emit one after another. You can pause and resume the photon flow at any time and analyse why things happen in this way and not the other.