game+design+by+andres


 * 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 think that we could call the sprites gorillas and the enemies either disease or poachers in order to represent the real life problems that gorillas face in a normal day basis. A way to win is by gaining points and avoiding the frags. There are also certain obstacles in the winning of the game that include the way the game board's design

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. I think that the game board life would be a good choice when it comes to selecting an existing game board because I think that the game of life usually represents the life of an average human but the life of gorilla would be an interesting thing to put the spotlight on because many people do not know what they go through.

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief.