Odyssey is a science puzzle adventure game focused on scientific reasoning and argumentation in astronomy and mechanics from the ancient Greeks to Newton. The game blends the history of science with an immersive journey across the exotic yet dangerous Wretched Islands to rescue Kai, a 13-year old girl, and her family. While solving puzzles to navigate across the islands, you also embark on an intellectual voyage, reconstructing the creative ideas and arguments of some of the world’s greatest scientists and philosophers.

This game takes an innovative historical approach to teaching science. It asks the students to engage many of the NGSS science practices such as constructing explanations, developing and using models, and arguing from evidence. Perhaps more importantly, it illuminates how scientific reasoning has led us to build the understanding we have of the Earth’s place in the solar system. From this, a student will begin to get an appreciation of the creative achievement that science represents in an engaging and compelling manner.

Jonathan Osborne, Professor of Science Education at Stanford University, co-author of A Framework for K-12 Science Education for the NGSS

The approach to science education developed in this fine and carefully executed project is both imaginative and compelling, bringing to the players of the game not only an understanding of what science has achieved, but also how it came about, the course of discovery. That is just what is needed to encourage students to become not merely observers, but also creative participants in the marvelous journey of exploration and understanding of our world.

Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT

Making Science and Math relevant to students calls for new ideas. Vivek and Omkar go back to how stuff was first discovered and put it in a video game where the players retrace this path and rediscover how the world works -- a wonderful 21st century meld of ideas.

David Mumford, Fields Medalist,National Medal of Science Winner and Professor Emeritus Brown and Harvard Universities

The Odyssey game offers an important next step for science education in the information age. For most students, knowledge is at their finger tips. The need to recall information has been replaced by the need to discern between potentially opposing positions. The Odyssey game gives students a unique opportunity to learn how to engage in scientific argumentation through gameplay. This is an extraordinary first step for science education.

Bryan Brown, Associate Professor of Science Education, Stanford University

The premise of the game is to lead students through a learning journey which follows in the paths of the great scientists. The game has students recreate the discoveries of the past while engaging them in a current story which will fascinate and challenge them. This game helps students to see science the way they should – with inquiring minds and from various perspectives.

Jenny Garcia, Science teacher at Saratoga High School

This game was fun because it taught me the way people thought and did science since ancient times. It was also challenging, and required deeper thinking, which was good.

Leela Srinivas, 7th grade

Odyssey is an intriguing interactive adventure game that takes you through the history of science. An engaging plot with integrated fun puzzles encourages you to learn about science through your own discoveries. The game graphics are realistic and dynamic, creating a full immersive gaming experience.

Ella, 13 year old, Homeschooling

As a homeschooling parent and educator, I organized the class that Omkar and Vivek taught based on their game “Odyssey”. This class was college-level style but taught in an approachable and thoughtful way. In fact, whenever the students encountered a difficult concept, they were able to add a component to the video game that helped them visualize it, giving our students the best possible way to comprehend the some of the difficult but magnificent ideas in the story of science. Odyssey comes from two brilliant educators and was one of the best learning experiences for our students!!

Robyn Carrillo, parent