Adelqui-Game-Design


 * 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 using Gamestar mechanic that follows the design brief would be one that is intense, its challenging its somehow related to your topic, you would be able to learn a few things that you didn't before, it would be interesting.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. A Serious Game Mod for an Existing Boardgame that follows the design brief would be like monopoly. It would have chance and community chest cards, would have little characters and money. You would have to get through the board at least one round without dying. You would have to work, buy food and shelter for you and your family. Throughout this process though you will have setbacks, losing money, aftershocks, people dying, and losing your family or house.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. A Serious Game that follows the design brief is Hurricane Katrina, it follows everything. Its challenging, fun, and everyone can play. This is based on real life on the trouble and misery that the people in New Orleans are still going through even though its been years, since the hurricane.