I signed up for Entaglion while attending IBM Q conference last year (they were sending out the game to interested participants), and I must say it's awesome. Thanks a bunch for creating it, ever since it arrived I had loads of fun! It's proven itself useful especially in making my friends more familiar with the world of quantum computing :)
Now this is the way to make an educational board game: Equal emphasis on getting both the principles and the gameplay right. Enjoyable as learning may be on its own, an unbalanced or un-engaging game can take the fun out of what it's intended to help with.
I'm also impressed with the visual and typographic design of Entanglion's game components. I was surprised not to see a Kickstarter for a professionally-manufactured box set.
Wouldn't a professionally manufactured set infringe the license terms? From what I can see, the game and it's assets are released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Take the files to office max and print on heavy cardstock. It makes very reasonable quality games. I design board games as a hobby and this is what I do. 100s of games played and good enough quality to pitch to publishers.
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I'm also impressed with the visual and typographic design of Entanglion's game components. I was surprised not to see a Kickstarter for a professionally-manufactured box set.
Wow. If they got tired of quantum they could go into AI. AI good enough to simulate how hard a game is, is impressive.
and some computer games http://quantumgame.io/
http://www.tropic.org.uk/~crispin/quantum/
(full disclosure, last one is mine)