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by opheliate 1481 days ago
More applicable for kids, although certainly of interest to adults too: Minecraft. Any interest in Redstone will push players towards learning the basics of binary logic, without even realising what they're learning will be applicable down the line. Plus, it has (I assume) the largest modding scene of any game - there's a lot of people out there who have learned Java just so they can target Minecraft/CraftBukkit.