Eric'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.

A serious game design that could be made in Gamestar Mechanics is new sprites that actually have the ability to move in all directions and they could follow you. I would also try to change the sprites that you can control into something that would be better suited to endangered pandas. I planned on making the sprite you control to be a panda and there is a whole bunch of enemy sprites following you try to capture you. I planned that the enemy sprites would be changed into potchers who are trying to capture you by shooting nets at you. This would better suit my topic because it shows how he potchers are trying to exterminate pandas. To win this game you must be able to reach the end of the giant maze without dying or getting captured by potchers. There will even be invisiible ones that you cannot see. This game will also be fast paced because you will under time and you have to move quickly so you may escape the enemies. __Core Mechanics:__ The core mechanics of this game will be that the evil sprites will moving and they will try to attack you and make you lose life. The ules of this game wll be that you must avoid the evil sprites to run and eventually win by getting to the goal. The goal of this game is to reach the block with the star which eans you win. Another goal this game is to allow the player to learn more about endangered pandas.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief.

A serious board game that i think can be modeled to fit my game chess. I think that the pieces will knock each other out of the game but across the game there will be obstacles that will stop you from moving. For example a net that causes you to lose that piece and there will be cards that you must draw at specific times that gives you information about pandas. These cards will also give you power boosts or more traps to place in the chess board. To winthis game you must checkmate the other persons leader and this can be won by both sides. After the game is won a card should be read about th future after all the pandas are gone or after the potchers decide to leave the pandas alone. __Core Mechanics:__ The goal of this game is to use strategy and teach the player about endangered animals such as pandas. The rules of this game is that when you hit a blockade you must stop for a turn or lose your piece. The moving parts of this game s the pieces of chess that you must control to beat all of he other pieces.

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

My free choice game would be a video game like sims. This game would show you as a panda and you could really do anything but the you must watch out as potchers try to get you and capture you. If you do get captured the game will be lost but if you saved it before you can restart at the checkpoint you saved in. In this game the panda will be running, eating, and build if it is smart enough. Pop-ups will appear once and a while educating the player about the pandas situation in Asia. This game will mostly be won by the panda getting to safe place where all the other pandas live and the panda lives peacefully without anymore harm. __Core Mechanics:__ The plot of this story is that te pandas are trying to escape from on place to another without getting captured. The goal of this games to educate the gamers about pandas andhow they are losing habitat due to polution and habitat destruction. The rules of this game is to lead the panda safely to a peaceful place where they will not be hunted to extinction. The moving parts of this game is you the panda that is your character.