DanielT's-7-1-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. A Serious Game Using Gamestar Mechanic that follows the design brief. I could do a game with many different levels and each level had a more civilized area. The reason is because the farther away you get from the guerillas is the closer you get to civilization. Is it possible to escape the evil grasp of the Guerillas is the main idea of the game. You are just a lone captive, a retired marine who was on vacation. Using his skills he attempts to escape and succeeds. He must use stealth, agility, and the ability to frag to escape. This would be my game using Game star.
 * 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)

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. I could do a Game Mod of the Existing Game Life, and edit the job and salary cards so that you must choose your direction and your plan. If you land on a special “war” card, you will get an event like you just found a weapon stash, take 50$ from each player. You have to keep on moving forward or you will get captured. It is also for multiple players since it could be a group of people saving their families and escaping from the forests of Colombia (Guerrilla Territory)

3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. I could do another board game that I could do is monopoly. It would be very difficult, but i can make it work. I could use the cards to act things out like getting caught by the guerillas and than have to go to the jail slot or other things similar to that. Afterwords it would be the same stuff you earned during monopoly. And you could own protection, like shelter or food. (original idea by ian ryding)