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Andy Hall
@testtubegames.com
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Game Developer behind TestTubeGames.
Enjoy building, finding, and sharing cool science through games / toys / simulations.

My games: https://testtubegames.com
Other games I love: https://thescienceplayground.com/

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Andy Hall @testtubegames.com · Nov 13
You probably see me share a lot of science projects, but I also work on my own.

The current game: Agent Higgs 2!

It's a puzzle game where the pieces are the particles of the Standard Model.

Yes, *all* the particles. Yes, it was a questionable scope. Yes, it's still under development. (1/?)
Title screen of a cartoony style game. Title Agent Higgs 2, subtitle: Escape from the Standard Model. There are three buttons shaped like folders that say Play, Editor, and About. There is a red H with groucho Marx glasses in the middle of the screen, partially hiding behind a wooden crate. Around them are a variety of crates as well as particle tiles. There is a blue box with a p and a plus sign on it, representing a proton. Similarly there is an electron, muon, tau, and neutron block. Level in a grid based puzzle game. There are a variety of tiles, with Higgs trapped behind many wooden boxes in the corner. There are four electrons grouped together, and four positron tiles in a vertical line nearby. A small mysterious figure says "Don't think of it as particles dying. Think of it as particles changing. Changing into... being dead. You know what, let's move on." Tile based level of a game. Again, Higgs is in the lower corner, this time blocked by many black tiles representing holes in the level. There are four protons and four neutrons grouped in the upper left of the level. This time the mysterious figure says "A little danger is nothing you can't handle... right?"
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
Back in 2013, Bill Gates remarked that it would take a decade to know whether education technology really worked. More than ten years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the answer is increasingly clear. Notes Emily Cherkin, an advocate and fed-up parent: "Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead."
January 25, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Beautiful graphic of the day (because that should be a thing: Our Solar System

By my data hero Eleanor Lutz
An annotated map of the solar system with hundreds of solar elements in beautiful rings
January 16, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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Last chance* to join the TestTubeGames newsletter!

Project updates, deep dives into the science behind my games, and links to other cool science to explore online.

Delivered right to you, and not surrounded by a feed of current events.

mailchi.mp/d92658cb25c4...

*what?
TestTubeGames logo, a test tube filled with purple liquid over a pink circle. Title: Welcome Back! I've got a new project to share today - all about the Cosmic Microwave Background. This is ancient light that's been traveling for billions of years to reach us today.
January 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Last chance* to join the TestTubeGames newsletter!

Project updates, deep dives into the science behind my games, and links to other cool science to explore online.

Delivered right to you, and not surrounded by a feed of current events.

mailchi.mp/d92658cb25c4...

*what?
TestTubeGames logo, a test tube filled with purple liquid over a pink circle. Title: Welcome Back! I've got a new project to share today - all about the Cosmic Microwave Background. This is ancient light that's been traveling for billions of years to reach us today.
January 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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jerthorp.bsky.social
Someone fund me to make this into a travel show where we spin the wheel and then go see the bird wherever in the world it might be.

It'll have Fishing With John vibes but will also be very educational.

I can give you my Venmo.
January 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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drskyskull.bsky.social
It turns out that you can create an interference pattern using light from two independent lasers. The interference arises from the quantum view that you cannot tell which laser any individual photon came from.
petrockette.bsky.social petrockette @petrockette.bsky.social · 21d
I want you to tell me something about photons that I do not know. This is sincere and friendly and not hostile
January 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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waynestatechem.bsky.social
The Mentos challenge just got serious 🧐 See what happens when chem prof Tom Kuntzleman dds Mentos to a bottle of champagne in comparison to a different carbonated beverage. Cheers! #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #mentoschallenge #ChemEd
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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queenofpeat.bsky.social
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
Image of an Alaskan bog with water and red moss in the foreground and trees in the background.
January 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Intrigued by this new collection of learning games. You all know I love a good list...
"Vault Game Library"
vaultlearninggames.org
Vault Learning Games Library
Vault is the most comprehensive library of free learning games for grade 3+ created by education researchers at Field Day Lab (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
vaultlearninggames.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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When you look around a creatives discord server and realize folks have only been sharing AI-related creations for months...

Hope somebody who needs this message finds it.
Discord server message, small cartoon character icon, message written by andy. "That's that, then. If there are any folks that are against using AI and in the creator space, feel free to track me down elsewhere. You're not alone, and I'd love to support your stuff."
December 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
testtubegames.com
When you look around a creatives discord server and realize folks have only been sharing AI-related creations for months...

Hope somebody who needs this message finds it.
Discord server message, small cartoon character icon, message written by andy. "That's that, then. If there are any folks that are against using AI and in the creator space, feel free to track me down elsewhere. You're not alone, and I'd love to support your stuff."
December 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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kslivensky.bsky.social
Writers and illustrators tend to be against AI, but where I haaave seen it crop up or be admitted to in the Kidlit arena is in creating additional resources, like activities and discussion guides.

Please be assured, *nothing* I create is done with AI. Including bonus resources like these.
❤️⬇️
#NoAI
kslivensky.bsky.social Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · Dec 3
Hey, #Edusky, I not only write #STEM books for kids, I have classroom and home #STEM activities on my website that tie into the books! And are free to download! And are created and vetted by a professional science educator (me!)! 😀

#KidLit

Find them here: www.katieslivensky.com/resources
Model fossil impression of a paw print and human hand side by side made with fossil dough. A set of items needed to do a geology activity, including aluminum foil, crayons, a cutting board, bowls, a knife, a spoon, and a toothpick. A set of items needed to do a volcano activity, including ketchup, a measuring cup, baking soda, an empty bottle, spoons, dishsoap, clay, and vinegar. A tiny robot made with wires, a battery, a vibrating motor, pipe cleaners, and a googly eye.
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Hey there, I, ROCK: A Geology Tale fans. 😁🪨

Guess who's teaming up again??? This time, we aren't Earthbound... Steph Stilwell and I are back at it, taking on ASTRONOMY!!! 😃⭐🌌🔭

I am so beyond excited to announce this new #BookDeal!!!!

Ahhhh!!!! 😃😃🤩

#KidLit
#STEMLit
#PictureBooks
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, December 9, 2025. I'M A STAR By Katie Slivensky, Steph Stilwell Imprint: Beach Lane Books Katie Slivensky's I'M A STAR, an astronomy tale with humor, heart, and plenty of stellar facts, told from the viewpoint of one of our galaxy's newest and most enthusiastic stars, illustrated by Steph Stilwell, to Andrea Welch at Beach Lane Books, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2028, by Ammi-Joan Paquette at Aevitas Creative Management for the author, and by Aliza Hoover at The CAT Agency for the illustrator (world). Framed by an adorable graphic of outer space characters, various planets and one big smiling star, illustrated by Steph Stilwell.
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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kslivensky.bsky.social
👀👀👀👀👀👀

I SPY A FAMILIAR ROCK!!!!!!

😃😃😃🥳

Holy moly, THANK YOU, @slj.com!!!
Yellow graphic of Rock from I, ROCK celebrating with mineral friends. Text says SLJ Best Book of 2025. Art by Steph Stilwell. Book written by Katie Slivensky and illustrated by Steph Stilwell.
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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easmussen.bsky.social
New trailer for Factory Town 2 just dropped!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEcR...
Factory Town 2: Paradise [Official Trailer]
YouTube video by 82apps
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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kslivensky.bsky.social
4yo, getting a reasonable 2/4 right while singing How It's Done from Kpop Demon Hunters:

~~"Meals. Nails. Blade. Mosquitoes."~~
October 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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A box of gas (blue) + dark matter (green), now with a smoother distribution at the start.

(gravity + pressure + viscosity, 16k particles, periodic 2d)
October 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I love this simulation of the early universe, part of our new CMB project.

This is early on - (~300,000 years after the Big Bang). The universe is so hot, plasma is everywhere. Photons can't travel far, bouncing off electric charges.
October 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Some more 'gas' particles - this time two clumps in orbit. Pretty dangerous tides, if you ask me.

(16k particles, gravity + pressure + viscosity)
October 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I love this simulation of the early universe, part of our new CMB project.

This is early on - (~300,000 years after the Big Bang). The universe is so hot, plasma is everywhere. Photons can't travel far, bouncing off electric charges.
October 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Some more 'gas' particles - this time two clumps in orbit. Pretty dangerous tides, if you ask me.

(16k particles, gravity + pressure + viscosity)
October 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Oops, the gas simulation made a Saturn, I guess?

(8k particles, all feeling gravity + pressure + viscosity)
October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
testtubegames.com
Oops, the gas simulation made a Saturn, I guess?

(8k particles, all feeling gravity + pressure + viscosity)
October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Related physics puzzle - can you figure out this SPOOKY force law?

Bonus point: If this force law were to dress up for Halloween, what costume would it wear?
October 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM