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Sky Shapes Astronomy Game

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A Flash game that I designed in my second year of graduate school. I'm not sure where this idea came from, but the goal was to design something that a younger child could play. And I think I was revisiting an interest in astronomy at the time. The song was also a factor— Norah Jones had just made it big, and it was fun to use one of her songs. So sometimes projects came out of odd combinations of things...

Note: Do not click on the "back to games" link in the game; this went to a menu of games done by the whole class, but does not work in this archived version.

Play game.

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