Sugar vs Glitchspace
When comparing Sugar vs Glitchspace, the Slant community recommends Glitchspace for most people. In the question“What are the best educational games on PC?” Glitchspace is ranked 13th while Sugar is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Glitchspace is:
The music in game is similar to elevator music and the visuals are simple and relaxing, combined it creates an atmosphere that is pretty stress free, which is good as the further one gets the more complicated the game can become.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Kids-friendly
Great tool for children. Not only for learning things interactively, but also to be introduced to Open Source computing in a playful manner.
Pro One of the best for Kids
It's a really nice dekstop for kids. Very intuitive and have a very nice design.
Pro Activities
Sugar uses Activities, which are apps that involve and engage the user in order to encourage him to learn. These activities save the results to a journal where reflections are recorded.
Pro Non stress environment
The music in game is similar to elevator music and the visuals are simple and relaxing, combined it creates an atmosphere that is pretty stress free, which is good as the further one gets the more complicated the game can become.
Pro Inventive 3D representation of programming
The player needs to get from point a to point b by fixing glitches in the environment by using a programming language called Null, which allows user manipulation of the environment. Through this manipulation the game focuses on an inventive way of showing 3D representations of the mechanics of programming.
Pro Helps you learn how 3D game geometry works
While the 3D programming language in the game doesn't have much scripting or logic in it, it does teach you about how 3D geometry works through concepts like scaling, translating, and transforming objects and vectors.
Cons
Con Bad interface and unfriendly learning curve
Con Focused on kids only
This desktop environment is focused on children. No reason for any adult to use it what so ever.
Con Intimidating to learn
Upon first boot it is quite obvious that the game will take a bit of play to learn, this is made worse by the fact that there is no tutorial. Though the game is in early access, so that may change.