Ajile'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 using gamestar mechanic that follows the designs brief is the game Frag. Frag is a game on Gamestar mechanic. Frag is fast paced, accessible to players, challenging, it has a clear goal an winable. The objective of frag is to shoot your enemies and gain points without loosing your lives. Frag come with spirits, enemies and guns. core mechanics: The goal of the game is to get to the beginning point to the end point with out loosing lives. You also have to find away to defeat the enemies by using the gun and shooting them.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. A serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the game brief is Life. Life is a game where you have can control your future ahead of you. You can pick a career, house, salary, spouse and the amount of children you can have. Life is fast-paced depending on how many people plays, but when its about four people playing the game is fast-pace. Life is winalble and enjoyable to play. core mechanics: To win life you have to how the most money at the end of the game. To get the most money you have to find a job with a high paying salary and try to land on the pay day mark. Also try to avoid landing on taxes mark because they would take about two-fifths of your salary.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. A serious game of my choice would be mario bros. Mario bros is a game where you have to save princess peach from browser. Browser is a big scary monster. To win the game you have to go through many different levels until you get to Browser house and beat him. If you dont beat him you wont be able to save princess peach. The game is fast-pace because they have you on a 360 time limit and to make the limit you have to be fast. The game is also very challenging, it is really hard to beat browser. core mechanics: To win mario Bros you have to receive many mushrooms. When receiving the mushrooms you would get more lives. The more lives you get the more time you get to save peach. To win you also have to have a powerful form such as flower, fire, ice and etc. The powerful forms helps you defeat browser because browser has power against those forms.