Christopher-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. To make a serious game out of Game Star Mechanics I would need alot of modyfing and editig on the game generator. It would be about the Iraq Warand what you have to do in order to survive war with two options, finding a resolution, or just plain war. I would need to change the avatars to something rlated to my topic, I would have to change the Obsticles, blocks and such, and I would also need to change the goal and have a narrarator speaking about the historyof the game. The Core Mechanics are those and it would take a while to make a serious game out of GameStar Mechanics but I look forward to it.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. I could make a Iraq Board game out of monopoly or of Life, but i would need to change the goal, I would need to change the blocks, and I should have to give insturctions about beating the game. I have to make sure it is easy to understand the rules, and that it is winable and challenging at the same time. I wonder how this would work out if I make a board game on a serious game. Some Core Mechanics that I would need to make this game would be consturction paper, scissors, tape or glue, dice, cards, and markers.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. I can make a card game about the Iraq War, and you have to have no cars left. You can look at other peoples cards, like cheating because in the Iraq War, no one plays fair. I could make the game a little like Uno, but with different rules. I think that it would be a challenge and that it could be a little hard to create the game, but if I have to, I will. Some Core Mechanics that i would need are consturction paper, scissors, tape or glue, dice, spinners, rulers, and markers. This is how I could make a card game into a serious game.