Steven'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. To make my serious game about the Iraq war using Gamestar Mechanics I would make you (the player) create a custom charecter using the sprites and give it a name and everything. Then as you defeat enemy sprites you learn more and more about the war it-self and other facts about the land your on. Core mechanics:

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. I would modify the game monopoly for my serious game about the Iraq war. You would use dice just like the real game and as you move around the board you have choices to buy the land or thing after reading information about it. Core mechanics:

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. For a serious game about the Iraq war I would perfer a video game where you are the president and as time goes on you learn about the war and have to continuously make tough decisions about the war. With all the right answers you can help your country get out of the term oil and be the most powerful country in the world, too many wrong answers though and you might get nuked by the other countries. Core mechanics: