Whyville: status, maker and key facts on file
Whyville is a game by Numedeon. Status: Playable, checked November 2026.
Updated
Whyville is played on its maker's website; this directory lists and checks it and does not host it.
Whyville in brief
Children build an avatar, chat, play games and earn in-world currency called clams in a browser-based virtual world that blends play with simulation-based learning. Its recurring virtual epidemics, beginning with Why-Pox in 2005, let players write about and debate outbreaks, and a later grant from the National Science Foundation supported adapting them for COVID-19. Scientists from Caltech founded it in 1999.
Whyville is a game by Numedeon. Whyville is filed under Other, sector Education. Platform on file: Web browser. Cost on file: Free. The maker's page offered Whyville in November 2026; this was verified by reading the page.
3 articles on this site name Whyville: The 2011 Whyville Game Design Contest in the AMD Game Zone, Whyville: the Virtual World for Learning and the WhyTops T-Shirts and Whyville.net and the 2020 NSF COVID-19 grant on epidemics. More entries are in the games directory.
Key facts
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Maker | Numedeon |
| Topic | Other |
| Sector | Education |
| Platform | Web browser |
| Cost | Free |
| Status | Playable |
| Checked | November 2026 |
| Official address | whyville.net |