joshua's-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. The game that i will be making will be a game that i will use Gamestar mechanics to help design. The game will be about the bombing of israel, that happened last year. You will be one of the smallest avatars and you will have to face the tanks, that can shoot at you. This will give you a sence f what the people in israel were thinking at the time of the bombing.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief This will be a game board, which has 2 types of people you can play with. The good guys, which are the people of israel and the bad guys, which are the palestinians. There will also be different types of weapons that each side can use Fior example, the bad guys can use nukes and tanks. The isrealy people will use weapons like molotov cocktals and rocket launcher, and some maybe even flame throwers.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. A game using gamestar mechanics that is similar to my big issue. You will be a person running away form things like airplanes and tanks. Aong the way you will encounter obstacles and probably even minigames.