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Grade-School ‘MMO’ Launches Site, Plans Kickstarter Drive

ClassRealm, the role-playing game/teaching system developed by educator and long-time Kotaku reader Ben Bertoli, has launched a website to help share the game with other schools and teachers interested in it. Bertoli says a Kickstarter project is planned soon.


How One Teacher Turned Sixth Grade Into An MMO

Editor’s Note: Ben Bertoli is a long-time Kotaku reader and commenter, a lifetime, dedicated video gamer and a sixth-grade teacher in Indiana. He reached out to Kotaku this past week to share the story of how he turned his class into a role-playing game. The enthusiasm and motivation of the children in Bertoli’s class evoke the success stories seen in gamified experiences such as Fitocracy. Here, Bertoli explains his creation, ClassRealm, how it works and what motivated him to develop it.


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