Joseph'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. If it's on Gamestar Mechanic, you are the Avatar. The villians are the Pirates. You have to try and get past them without getting killed. That is the goal. There will be guns scattered around that you can shoot them with.It is fast paced because there will be very few places to hide. You will almost always be trying to avoid Pirates and make it to the end of the level.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. This game will be played by two teams with 1 to three players on each. The design will be similiar to Monopoly. The object of the game will be to get all of the money. It is fast paced because someone will always be going and rolling the dice or moving their piece. One team will be the Pirates. The other team will be the Coast Guards. This game is for ages eight and up.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. The game would be called Up the Ropes and down the Gang Planks. You will be A member of the Coast Guard. It's fast paced because there are no breaks. If you get something back from the Pirates, you go up the ropes. To go down the gang planks, the Pirates steal something from you. This game is based on Chutes and Ladders.