my+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 mechanic, it would include: a avatar which you control as he moves through the city of Santo Domingo, and he picks up trash found on the street. The goal is to pick up all the trash on the map, and avoid trouble-maker who roam the map. The background would be jungle, and the enemies would be tribal looking.

By now you should have completed two brainstorm sessions for three game designs. a) A serious game on your topic using Gamestar Mechanic b) A serious game on your topic that is a mod of an existing board game c) A serious game on your topic --free choice