noelani-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. If I made a game using gamestar, there would be simply interchanging backgrounds along with changing enemies in each level and the avatar has to pick up the little points. There will be 5 levels, which get harder as you go and the actual setting has little blocks and power ups that help you throughout the game.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Existing Boardgame that follows the design brief. A mod i would make is of clue and you'd have to find out who is actually hurting the environment with pollution. The weapons will be replaced by different tools that will help delimiter the main suspect. The goal will be to find out who is harming the environment, and how they did it. Instead of rooms on the board, there will be different types of environments. There will be different pawns like a environmentalist, a doctor, a technician, and a global ambassador. The core mechanic is deducing.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. A free choice would be to create a mod based on Asteroids and the goal is to destroy all the trash polluting the environment. You will control a jet and it will shoot soap at the trash. The core mechanic will be accuracy, and the core value will be cleaning.