Ian's+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. I could make a serious game in gamestar mechanic by creating a series of games about the guerillas. It would be simple and i actually think i could make it work. the first level would probably be to escape the Guerillas then to destroy all the enemies then collect all of the points. I don't fully understand what i am going to do nut it will be along those lines.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. i could do a game based on Risk where one side is the US army and one side the local malitia as another and the guerillas as another. It would not work as well but i think it would do fine.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. I could do another boardgame that i could do is monopoly. It would be very difficult, but i can make it work. I could use things like Chance cards to have a very specific meaning. I could use the cards to act things out like getting caught by the guerillas. Properties would not be properties but more like defences against the guerillas. Maybe fterwards it would be a card game with all the stuff you earned during the monopoly. It would be very difficult to pull of, but if i could it would be very interesting.