Himanshu'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, exact 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 that I can create using Gamestar Mechanic would be the frags, they can be the suns demons because the sun is causing the ice to rapidly melt. So the avatar would go out to kill the demons of the sun and then defeat the sun to calm it down. This way nothing will be harmed. No animals will be on the verge of becoming extinct. The name of this game would be The Evil Sun.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. A serious game mod for an existing board game that follows the design brief would be Candy land. I can make my own cards and create a game with board pieces. These cards would show that if you land on a specific box then you have to do what the card tells you to do. This game was an inspiration to me. The name of this game would be Iceland.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. A serious game that follows the design brief is, snakes and ladders. The avatars would be polar bears, penguins, and etc. The goal would be to keep going up to the top, but instead of snakes this game would've icebergs and these icebergs either lead you back or take you ahead. As you come closer to winning, you are becoming free from the melting of the icebergs. This will stop the ice from melting and it will help you from keep living and not becoming extinct. The name of this game would be Icebergs and Animals.