Briana's-Game-Designs


 * IDEAS FOR SERIOUS GAMES**toc

Middle school students enjoy games but teachers don't appreciate that. Teachers feel that students should read and write to gain greater understanding about world issues. The problem to be solved is to make a serious game that is about a world issue.

**Requirements:**

 * 1) Game must be accessible to the intended players
 * 2) Game must be well-paced to be enjoyable
 * 3) Game must be challenging to the intended players.
 * 4) Game must have a clear goal
 * 5) Game must be winable.

** Constraints: **

 * 1) It must be possible to create this game with the tools available to middle school students (computers, wikis, blogs, cardboard, poster board, glue, colored pencils, markers, scissors, rulers, paper cutter, exacto knives, glue guns, found objects, dice, spinners, and other common items found in the home and school)

1. A Serious Game Using Gamestar Mechanic that follows the design brief. A serious game I would make using Gamestar Mechanic that follows the design brief, would be different then any other game in Gamestar Mechanic. I would change the sprites and make them fit more into my topic and allow them to look like the animals that are being endangered in the Arctic. I would then change the background in the game and make it look more like Antarctica. I think that this would be important to do because it would partially show the goal and purpose of the game.

Core Mechanics: The goal of this game would be to successfully move the sprite from point a to point b. This will be done by moving through a series of obstacles.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Existing Board game that follows the design brief. A serious game model I would make for an existing game board that follows the desgin brief is a game where the goal is to go around the game board without endangering the environment. The board game that I would use is Candy Land. I think this game would best fit my topic because I would be able to show ways to help the cause, and help stop global warming.

Core Mechanics: The goal of this game would be to successfully be the first person to go around the board once. This will be done by rolling a dice that determines how many spaces you move and also by picking up cards that determine weather you move up or back down.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. A game that I would make relating to my topic, "Global warming in the Arctic", is one where you become an Arctic animal and have to go through a course where you have to avoid obstacles and become less endangered. The game would be a computer game because I think it would best display this serious topic.

Core Mechanics: The goal of this game would be to successfully make it to the end of the Artic glacier without endangering the animal you chose to be. This will be done by avoiding things that could further endanger the animal.