Back in late 2014, E-Line Media released Never Alone -- a gorgeous platformer with the ambitious goal of teaching players about an indigenous Alaskan people. It wasn't perfect, but it did what it hoped to. Never Alone used video games to educate us about a world culture that most people didn't know much about. It was fascinating to imagine a whole line of these games that raise cultural awareness.
For its follow-up project, E-Line Media isn't doing that. While E-Line still aims to educate, it's shifting the exact intent. Its next title is called The Endless Mission, and it tries to teach people how to make games through increasingly difficult means of creation -- from asset placement all the way down to writing code.
The Endless Mission is initially presented as a hub of sorts, a home base with branches to all kinds of different activities. Playing is just as much a part of this game as the development aspects. Developer Endless Interactive has made a number of smaller experiences that semi-tutorialize how different genres should look.
via destructoid https://www.destructoid.com/the-never-alone-publisher-s-next-project-focuses-on-game-development-rather-than-cultural-education-496042.phtml